changing office icons

[karencheatham]

Hello,

I've been on an icon-revamping mission for the last couple of days...
all was going well until I tried to change the Word and Entourage
icons in my dock. I cannot get them to change. I know about pasting
onto the image in the 'get info.' box but this technique is not
working for these office icons. Any help would be much appreciated.

Also, I would like to change the Word 'document' icon. I can change 1
but want to change them all: all existing and all new. This must be
possible?! I have LiteIcon but it doesn't seem to have anything that
would apply a change to the word 'document' icon.

I am using Office 2004 with Mac OS 10.4.10

Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Karen

 

[Diane Ross]

I've been on an icon-revamping mission for the last couple of days...
all was going well until I tried to change the Word and Entourage
icons in my dock. I cannot get them to change. I know about pasting
onto the image in the 'get info.' box but this technique is not
working for these office icons. Any help would be much appreciated.

Also, I would like to change the Word 'document' icon. I can change 1
but want to change them all: all existing and all new. This must be
possible?! I have LiteIcon but it doesn't seem to have anything that
would apply a change to the word 'document' icon.

AFAIK this has never come up on this list. I would hazard a guess that the
icons are hard wired. You would need to use something like Resorcerer (was
in ResEdit Classic) to edit the code.

<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2767>

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Karen:

Diane is correct: The dock icons come out of the Word and Office
executables. You would need to edit the executables to change them.

Cheers

Hello,

I've been on an icon-revamping mission for the last couple of days...
all was going well until I tried to change the Word and Entourage
icons in my dock. I cannot get them to change. I know about pasting
onto the image in the 'get info.' box but this technique is not
working for these office icons. Any help would be much appreciated.

Also, I would like to change the Word 'document' icon. I can change 1
but want to change them all: all existing and all new. This must be
possible?! I have LiteIcon but it doesn't seem to have anything that
would apply a change to the word 'document' icon.

I am using Office 2004 with Mac OS 10.4.10

Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Karen

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