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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / September 2008custom "save as" icon
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel Is there any way to create new icons? The program does not come with a "save as" icon and I'd really like one.. Thanks for any advice The command can be added to a toolbar but as as text only, no icon other than a generic one that's used by default. You might find it even more effective to use the keyboard shortcut: Shift+Control+S HTH |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/7/08 7:34 PM, in article 59b58ed7.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > as" icon and I'd really like one.. > Thanks for any advice Thanks. Right now I have the text on my toolbar, amidst all the icons. I was hoping there was some way to create/import an icon. Guess I'll stick with the old keyboard commands as you suggest. This link might give you a chuckle <http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38976> Yes, you can create icons and import them. 1) They need to be 16 x 16 or 32 x 32 pixels RGB bitmaps. 2) Word uses 24-bit BMP format internally, but it can also import PNG and GIF pictures. 3) Make your icon in a graphics editor, at the correct size and format, then put it on the clipboard (Copy). 4) Now, go into Customize Toolbars click the button you want to change (left-click, once) to select it. 5) Right-click the selected icon and choose Properties 6) In the top left corner where the icon appears, drop down the disclosure arrow 7) From the menu that appears, choose "Paste Button Image". 8) OK your way out, and make sure you save to the correct template, and that you save (and BACK UP!!) the template. I do most of my customisation in Normal template. After 20 years, there's well over a million dollars worth of customisation programming effort in that file. I wouldn't want to lose it :-) There, that was intuitive, wasn't it :-) Cheers On 8/09/08 12:47 PM, in article 59b58ed7.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Thanks. Right now I have the text on my toolbar, amidst all the icons. I was > hoping there was some way to create/import an icon. Guess I'll stick with the > old keyboard commands as you suggest. This link might give you a chuckle > <http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38976>  SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name Excellent instructions, John, except for 2 things: It won't work in 2008 for Save As - it's one of several commands that don't come "factory equipped" with an icon & won't accept one - either from the included palette of icons or a custom icon. All you wind up with is a blank space adjacent to the command name. The second point is that you can't access a button's properties while the toolbar it's on is Docked & the Standard Toolbar can't be "undocked". Even for commands that will allow changing icons you have to do so on a floating toolbar then move or copy to Standard if that's where you want them (since the Save command is there it's assumed you'd want Save As there as well). On that same note, if the customized button *isn't* added to Standard (or one of the other 4 "top tier" toolbars) it would have to be on a permanently floating bar - remember, custom bars can't be docked in the document window. Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/8/08 5:11 AM, in article C4EB2245.18F47%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie" <john@mcghie.name> wrote: > Yes, you can create icons and import them. > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> old keyboard commands as you suggest. This link might give you a chuckle >> <http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38976> Oh! That's an Interesting bug :-) Save As won't take an icon (even though it thinks it has...) I had never seen that before :-) Yes, I am aware that you have to shuffle the deck a bit to work on the Standard toolbar buttons. I think this is another of those things they left half-done in the rush to get it out the door. Cheers On 8/09/08 8:06 PM, in article C4EA7862.424EB%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, "Bob Jones" <onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net> wrote: > Excellent instructions, John, except for 2 things: > [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] >>> old keyboard commands as you suggest. This link might give you a chuckle >>> <http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38976> SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name > Oh! That's an Interesting bug :-) Save As won't take an icon (even though > it thinks it has...) I had never seen that before :-) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Cheers Or it was written Monday morning early after a week end of Partying ;-) > On 8/09/08 8:06 PM, in article C4EA7862.424EB%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, > "Bob Jones" <onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] >>>> old keyboard commands as you suggest. This link might give you a chuckle >>>> <http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38976> Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phillip M. Jones, CET |LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. 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Corenitn Signature--- Mac:MS MVP http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Actually, there was no "save as" button in the older version of Word either. Of course the windows version has an editor that allows you to edit or create buttons; I was hoping they would include this in the new Mac version... Yaakov Hello Yaakov - See the in line replies; On 9/9/08 11:03 AM, in article 59b58ed7.5@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "" <> wrote: > Actually, there was no "save as" button in the older version of Word either. Correct, at least as far as default buttons on the built-in toolbars. But you could add the command to any toolbar, assign an icon & do away with the display of the Save As... text. > Of course the windows version has an editor that allows you to edit or create > buttons; I was hoping they would include this in the new Mac version... Which version :-) Certainly not the most current one - 2007 - which has done away with Menus & [customizable] toolbars ( other than the QAT & Mini Toolbar ), let alone customizable icons for buttons. Further, Office on the PC has also gotten away from bitmap editing altogether. > Yaakov Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac |
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