How to display a toolbar macro button as an icon?

[david.f.jenkins]

I'm using Office PowerPoint 2003 SP1. I've created some macros that
I've installed on the Standard toolbar.

How can I assign an icon to those macro buttons?

 

[david.f.jenkins]

I think I see now how to assign an icon to the macro button, but the
choices are extremely limited, and don't match at all the functionality
of my particular macros.

Is there a way to use other icons? I can see, I think, how to edit a
new icon for the button, but I really don't want to do that - I just
want to use some already-designed icon...

 

[Kathy J]

David,
Shyam has a free add-in that will let you see all the available icons from
within PPT. I strongly recommend you download it. Information on the add-in
can be found here:
http://officeone.mvps.org/faceid/index.html

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[Steve Rindsberg]

I think I see now how to assign an icon to the macro button, but the
choices are extremely limited, and don't match at all the functionality
of my particular macros.

Is there a way to use other icons? I can see, I think, how to edit a
new icon for the button, but I really don't want to do that - I just
want to use some already-designed icon...

Other than using one of the existing Office icons, you can use the .PasteFace
method of the button to paste whatever's on the Windows clipobard onto the
button face.

It's up to you to get the image on the clipboard one way or another, and PPT's
liable to blur it a good bit when you paste it in.

 

[david.f.jenkins]

Thanks, Kathryn - that will be a big help!

 

[david.f.jenkins]

Steve: I have three macro buttons on the toolbar, and the text on
these just runs together - I figure an icon (albeit fuzzy) may help to
differentiate them. Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve: I have three macro buttons on the toolbar, and the text on
these just runs together - I figure an icon (albeit fuzzy) may help to
differentiate them. Thanks!

Good enough, then.

Unless you're ready to play API games with the clipboard, the simplest way of
getting an image ready to paste into a button face is to open a new
presentation w/o a window, insert the picture, copy it, paste it onto the
toolbar then close the presentation. Sounds lunatic, actually happens quite
quickly.