I've posted about this issue under Office General Questions, but we haven't
got very far with it. Location of that discussion --

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xp=&sloc=en-us

I'll restate as briefly as possible:

Systems are running Vista Business, Office Professional 2007, Office Visio
Professional 2007, Office OneNote 2007 -- all RTM. Complete install was used
for each of the Office applications.

The Office shortcuts produced by the installation process in the Start Menu
work fine when selected by mouse or by arrow keys. The do NOT work when
selected with the Start Menu search function. It gets weirder. If I pin any
of these shortcuts to the Start Menu's top level, they don't function at all,
regardless of how they are selected. Same for placing them in the Quick
Launch toolbar. Drag them from their non-functioning position on the Start
Menu or in Quick Launch to the Desktop, and they work. All user accounts
behave the same. I have seen this now on five systems. I have not seen the
shortcuts behave properly (or in a manner that I would deem to be proper,
anyway) on a single machine with this combination of software.

Systems are configured very much alike -- using renamed primary accounts,
Ctrl-Alt-Del required to log in, not showing last logged user. Nothing fancy.

Am I doing something wrong / dumb? Is there a fix for this? A hidden
setting? An obvious setting? Folks in the Office discussion area don't seem
to be coming up with anything. I'm most CERTAINLY not coming up with
anything. Have tried Office diagnostics / repair - nothing. Have tried a
removal then reinstallation of the applications on one system - same result.
If I'm doing something dumb, at least I'm being consistent about it.

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