diff --git a/oox/source/export/shapes.cxx b/oox/source/export/shapes.cxx
index 541f54a0fdb8..d102880af7bd 100644
--- a/oox/source/export/shapes.cxx
+++ b/oox/source/export/shapes.cxx
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 #include <com/sun/star/drawing/ConnectorType.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/drawing/EnhancedCustomShapeParameterPair.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/drawing/EnhancedCustomShapeParameterType.hpp>
-#include <com/sun/star/embed/Aspects.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/embed/EmbedStates.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/embed/XEmbeddedObject.hpp>
 #include <com/sun/star/embed/XEmbedPersist.hpp>
@@ -2592,10 +2591,6 @@ ShapeExport& ShapeExport::WriteOLE2Shape( const Reference< XShape >& xShape )
         TOOLS_WARN_EXCEPTION("oox.shape", "ShapeExport::WriteOLEObject");
     }
 
-    sal_Int64 nAspect;
-    bool bShowAsIcon = (xPropSet->getPropertyValue("Aspect") >>= nAspect)
-                       && nAspect == embed::Aspects::MSOLE_ICON;
-
     OUString const sRelId = mpFB->addRelation(
         mpFS->getOutputStream(), sRelationType,
         Concat2View(OUString::createFromAscii(GetRelationCompPrefix()) + sFileName));
@@ -2622,7 +2617,6 @@ ShapeExport& ShapeExport::WriteOLE2Shape( const Reference< XShape >& xShape )
     if (pProgID)
     {
         mpFS->startElementNS( mnXmlNamespace, XML_oleObj,
-                          XML_showAsIcon, sax_fastparser::UseIf("1", bShowAsIcon),
                           XML_progId, pProgID,
                           FSNS(XML_r, XML_id), sRelId,
                           XML_spid, "" );
@@ -2631,7 +2625,6 @@ ShapeExport& ShapeExport::WriteOLE2Shape( const Reference< XShape >& xShape )
     {
         mpFS->startElementNS( mnXmlNamespace, XML_oleObj,
 //?                                              XML_name, "Document",
-                          XML_showAsIcon, sax_fastparser::UseIf("1", bShowAsIcon),
                           FSNS(XML_r, XML_id), sRelId,
                           // The spec says that this is a required attribute, but PowerPoint can only handle an empty value.
                           XML_spid, "" );
diff --git a/sd/qa/unit/data/odp/ole_icon.odp b/sd/qa/unit/data/odp/ole_icon.odp
deleted file mode 100644
index 073899c6e564..000000000000
Binary files a/sd/qa/unit/data/odp/ole_icon.odp and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/sd/qa/unit/export-tests-ooxml3.cxx b/sd/qa/unit/export-tests-ooxml3.cxx
index 93c8a3ac908e..a4e5d882d8e6 100644
--- a/sd/qa/unit/export-tests-ooxml3.cxx
+++ b/sd/qa/unit/export-tests-ooxml3.cxx
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ public:
     void testTdf94122_autoColor();
     void testTdf124333();
     void testAutofittedTextboxIndent();
-    void testTdf151622_oleIcon();
 
     CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE(SdOOXMLExportTest3);
 
@@ -219,7 +218,6 @@ public:
     CPPUNIT_TEST(testTdf94122_autoColor);
     CPPUNIT_TEST(testTdf124333);
     CPPUNIT_TEST(testAutofittedTextboxIndent);
-    CPPUNIT_TEST(testTdf151622_oleIcon);
     CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_END();
 
     virtual void registerNamespaces(xmlXPathContextPtr& pXmlXPathCtx) override
@@ -2073,23 +2071,6 @@ void SdOOXMLExportTest3::testAutofittedTextboxIndent()
                 "691200");
 }
 
-void SdOOXMLExportTest3::testTdf151622_oleIcon()
-{
-    auto xDocShRef = loadURL(m_directories.getURLFromSrc(u"sd/qa/unit/data/odp/ole_icon.odp"), ODP);
-
-    utl::TempFileNamed tmpfile;
-    xDocShRef = saveAndReload(xDocShRef.get(), PPTX, &tmpfile);
-    xDocShRef->DoClose();
-
-    xmlDocUniquePtr pXml = parseExport(tmpfile, "ppt/slides/slide1.xml");
-
-    // Without the accompanying fix in place, this test would have failed with:
-    // - Expression: prop
-    // - In ..., XPath '//p:oleObj' no attribute 'showAsIcon' exist
-    // i.e. show as icon option wasn't exported.
-    assertXPath(pXml, "//p:oleObj", "showAsIcon", "1");
-}
-
 CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION(SdOOXMLExportTest3);
 
 CPPUNIT_PLUGIN_IMPLEMENT();