Customizing Quick Access Toolbar Icons

No matter which graphic I choose , it's white in the access bar. All the other ones I have are as well except for the Excel one that is green and white)

unfortunately, Ron De Bruin has discontinued the site in your link above. He is also discontinuing his MVP for association in 2024. Thought you might want to know so you can edit the link.

I miss Old Excel's ability to edit toolbar buttons. I did this in Excel 2000 and it was nice. Pixel by pixel, draw and color the button image. I don't know when Microsoft took this ability away, but it was useful. I have multiple Paste macros assigned to the Quick Access Toolbar, and it would be nice to color-code the Clipboard icon, instead of having to select something completely unrelated.

Hi, Allen,

This all works perfect except when I click Modify... no dialogue box opens. Any idea what might prevent this?

Thanks,
Eric

TWIMC: You can use other icons on the Excel Quick Access Toolbar than the meager 300 ones offered in Excel's Modify Button dialog box.
Here is the link to the website on this subject "Changing text and icons on Office Quick Access Toolbar" clearly explaining how to do it:

https://office-watch.com/2018/changing-text-icons-office-quick-access-toolbar/

And the link to the gallery of 1500 possible icons:
https://www.spreadsheet1.com/office-excel-ribbon-imagemso-icons-gallery-page-01.html

Something I miss from the older toolbar version of Excel (prior to 2010 I believe): That had the ability to custom paint your icons. I always color coded my frequently used Delete Rows and Delete Columns buttons with RED in the presumptive changed spot, and GREEN in the "insert" icons.

Richard, try https://www.rondebruin.nl/win/s2/win009.htm

For me, the link to http://www.rondebruin.nl/getimage.htm generates a 404 error.

I have Excel 2010 and want to customize the icon on my QAT for a macro that I run on several workbooks. I can choose an icon from the default list but I want to edit the icon image. I could in a previous version of Excel. Is that possible in the 2010 version?

This worked just fine for me when I put several macros on my QAT in Excel 2007, but I just got 2013 today, and clicking the Modify button does nothing. I don't get the array of icons to chose from. Any ideas?

Sergio Higuera, mail me on anupam.gandhewar@techint.in

Sergio Higuera,
If you can email me the screen shot of the problem, you are facing then I may help you out.

Anupam,
when I add "Hide Column", for example, it doesn't have a specific icon for it,it's just a Generic green ball icon. Same for "Hide Row", and their respective "Unhide ...". Besides, if I click on the Hide Row on the right portion of the screen where I've added it, I should be able to click on the Modify button, but it is grayed out.

Sergio Higuera,

You can have any symbol from the library.
Not clear your query. Where excel gives Green Ball Symbol?

How about a way to modify Excel's default icon for things like "Hide Column", "Unhide Column", etc. Excel will put a green ball for all of them, so no way to know which is which unless you hover over it. My Modify button is grayed out when I select this icon on the right side of the screen where I added this icon.

The link in the tip is no longer valid. Try this instead:

http://www.rondebruin.nl/win/s2/win009.htm

Rolex,

I am not an expert, but I had also same problem.
See how how I solved it:
1. Open the worksheet where your macro is stored.
2. Ensure there are no contents in the workbook except the macros in VBA.
3. Now save as this excel work book as excel add-in (*.xlam.
4. Close this workbook.
5. Open new workbook
6. Create your symbols in customised ribbon again & assign the respective macros to the buttons.
7. Now try to run your macro.

Other workbook will not open.
Problem should get solved.

Still have problem then mail me :
anupam.gandhewar@techint.in

Thanks,
Anupam.

My query is: how to change those customized sumbols list. I mean I do not want the symbols from the microsoft given options. I need to create my own symbol/pictures and want to use it for my won macro.

Does anyone have this issue, when I created customized ribbon group tying to the macros, but every time I open up a new workbook, it opens up the workbook that contains the macros?