Changing a Toolbar Button Image

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated August 21, 2021)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003

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Excel provides you with quite a bit of flexibility in how your toolbars appear. You can change the appearance of your toolbar buttons so they accurately reflect how you want Excel to appear. For instance, you may have added a custom macro to a toolbar, and you want to change it so that a graphic appears on the toolbar button instead of the macro name. Follow these steps:

  1. Right-click on any toolbar visible in Excel. Excel displays a Context menu.
  2. Choose Customize from the Context menu. Excel displays the Customize dialog box with the Toolbars tab selected. (See Figure 1.)

    3. Figure 1. The Toolbars tab of the Customize dialog box.

  3. Right-click your mouse on the toolbar button you want to modify. Excel displays a Context menu.
  4. Choose Change Button Image from the Context menu. Excel displays a list of available graphic images you can use.
  5. Click your mouse on the graphic image you want to use. The image appears on the toolbar button.
  6. If you want to get rid of the text that appears on the toolbar button, continue with the next step, otherwise, skip to step 9.
  7. Right-click your mouse on the toolbar button you want to modify. Excel displays a Context menu.
  8. Choose Default Style from the Context menu. The toolbar button changes to only an image.
  9. Click on Close to get rid of the Customize dialog box.

ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2725) applies to Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003.

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2021-08-23 20:33:27

Allen

Richard,

No, it doesn't work in Office 2019. As it says at the end of the tip, "This tip (2725) applies to Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003."

In fact, this whole site is for older versions of Excel. If you want tips for the newer versions, see the notice at the top-right of every page on this site.

-Allen

2021-08-23 18:46:02

Richard Blunt

Does this work in Office 2019? I thought they discontinued it several years ago... :( I tried these steps hoping that maybe they brought it back but none of this worked for me. This looks like the way I used to do it in the old days :)

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