Manipulating button images in a custom toolbar

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Barry

Greetings:

I couldn't find an appropriate subcatagory for this question, so I put here.

I have a custom toolbar with about a dozen buttons on it. Each button has an
associated custom image. If I activate the "Customize" dialog box, right
click on one of these buttons and select "Change Button Image", I get a
little box of forty images, but none of my custom images is present. This
surprises me. I can edit a button image in place, and I can copy and paste
it to another button, but I can't disassociate it from the buttons and access
it as an icon pictore.

Is is possible to to this and, if so, how?

If it isn't possible, why not? Surely those little pictures exist
somewhere.

Thanks in advance for your help,
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Right-click on any button and choose Copy Button Image. You can then paste
the image onto another button or anywhere else.
 
B

Barry

Okay. That worked fine. I can paste them to a picture editor and manipulate
them. that's great.

Now, is there a way to group them together so that they show up when "Change
Button Image" is selected, either instead of or in addition to the existing
batch of images?

Thanks again.
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Barry Carroll

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Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Right-click on any button and choose Copy Button Image. You can then paste
the image onto another button or anywhere else.
 
B

Barry

Thanks, Suzanne. I'm sure I'll find this useful.

--
Barry Carroll

(Cleverly disguised as a trained SW engineer.)
---------
Datalogic Scanning, Inc. assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any
statements made by me. I''m entirely on my own here.


Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
No, but see the FaceID.zip you can get at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CustomButtonFaces.htm.



Barry said:
Okay. That worked fine. I can paste them to a picture editor and manipulate
them. that's great.

Now, is there a way to group them together so that they show up when "Change
Button Image" is selected, either instead of or in addition to the existing
batch of images?

Thanks again.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Note that the selection (a) is for all of Office and (b) has a lot of empty
slots (presumably for expansion) and (c) is for a very old version (Word
2000?), so it doesn't include a lot of the buttons added more recently (and
may have old-fashioned icons even for existing ones).
 

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