How can i gain direct access to the Office/Excel/Word icon files directly

Question

i'm familiar with using (or repurposing) microsoft office icons when creating ribbons etc (simply be setting the imageMso attribute of a ribbon element to the icon's name) but how can i gain access directly to these icon files?

i need to import icons into my project  and would like to include them as resources.  is there a way to acheive this?

Answer 1

Get the official icons from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21103

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Ed Ferrero
www.edferrero.com

Answer 2

thanks ed

i have this document already and use it regularly in order to locate icons to use in my ribbons

but what i actually want to be able to do is gain access to the physical icon files that this document contains, so that i may include them as resources in my solutions/projects.  do you know if this is possible?

Answer 3

Hi Matt,

Welcome to the MSDN forum!

Based on my knowledge, I'm afraid to say that those image icons with "imageMso" tag are built-in with the application. So we can't access them directly.

Have a nice day!

yoyo

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Yoyo Jiang[MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

cheers yoyo

that's disappointing if that's the case

nevermind, will have to waste time sourcing other icons to use

cheers

matt

Answer 5

Icon editing software: http://www.microangelo.us/icon-editor.asp

It can extract icons through the "Librarian" tool.