Built-in Office Icons for Access

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Could someone perhaps remind me how to open up a "custom" toolbar or
toolbars showing all the available built-in Office icons?

I used to be able to do this in Access97, but that was ages ago.

I would like to have these available for my own use on my own custom
toolbars.

Thanks, David Pike
 
Hi David,

You may be thinking of the Command Bar Face ID Viewer from
Zada Solutions for Access 97.

Here is a past post of mine that should help with this
subject:
The images used by the Command Button Wizard are stored in
a DLL file somewhere on a big "slab" so to speak. I don't
believe you can extract them per se, but here are some
alternatives to using them elsewhere.

If you use Access 97, you're life just got easier. Follow
this link:

http://www.zada.com.au/accessaddins.htm#access97

Download the free "Command Bar Face ID Viewer". This
installs a simple Access Add-In which will show you on a
series of tabs all of the Office icons. You simply Copy
and Paste them onto custom menu and toolbars or Paste them
into a program like Paint. What you can do is then save it
as a bitmap file to be accessed elsewhere.

I don't think they have the utility for 2000 or 2002, but
I'm not 100% sure.

If you DO use 2000 or 2002 you'll just have to be a little
more creative.
1. Go to View-->Toolbars-->Customize
2. From here you can look at all the various menu and
toolbars. If you find an icon you like just right-click on
it and select "Copy Button Image."
3. Now you can just open up Paint and Paste it into there.

Somewhat easy to do, but a little time consuming searching
for "just the right one."

By the way, you can also select from other Office programs
as well. I did the same thing listed above, but in Excel
and Word. Went to Customize and found an icon on one of
Excel's and Word's toolbars that I KNOW was not in Access.
Copied it from there, brought Access back up, and pasted
it onto an Access toolbar button or into Paint.

Check out this link on downloading and using Face Id
Finder form from Microsoft to access the images:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/library/en-us/dno97ta/html/faceid.asp

(Watch out for line wrapping, that link should all be on
one line in your browser)

Here's another link to other office program Face ID Add-
Ins:

http://www.mvps.org/skp/faceid.htm
Hope that helps,
Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
Bend, Oregon
 
Thanks, Access junkie from Bend - I am in North Carolina, but a transplanted
Oregonian (Oregon City). I know your neck of the woods well.

Yes, I DO know the Zada Solutions program, BUT, you are right, it's only
Access 97, unfortunately.

Of course, one can improvize - working in 97 to place a bunch of icons on a
sample toolbar, then convert the database with the toolbar to xp/2003, etc.,
etc.

I was just hoping there was an easier solution.

Some years ago, someone sent me code to create programmatically a custom
toolbar that then opened with ID "runs" of the icons, you know, 1-250, then
another toolbar, with IDs 251-500, etc. It worked fine, but I lost the
code.....

I'll look at some of your other suggestions.

Thanks!

David Pike
 
Thanks, Access junkie from Bend - I am in North Carolina,
but a transplanted Oregonian (Oregon City). I know your
neck of the woods well.
Click to expand...

Hey great!
I tip my hat to you then.
Yes, I DO know the Zada Solutions program, BUT, you are
right, it's only Access 97, unfortunately.
Click to expand...

Yes sadly only for 97. I'm actually surprised they haven't
updated the files for later versions.
Of course, one can improvize - working in 97 to place a
bunch of icons on a sample toolbar, then convert the
database with the toolbar to xp/2003, etc., etc.
Click to expand...

Actually I have done this in the past before.

Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
Bend, Oregon
 
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