Where (if possible) can I find images of icons?

[Max]

I am creating a document of error messages and dialog boxes, and I can copy
the message texts, but don't know how to copy the little icons that also
appear on these boxes, as well as other computer and internet icons. They
are things like the red X box to close a window, the yellow triangle with an
exclamation mark in it, a checkbox with a checkmark already on it, open and
closed folder icons, the Outlook square with the clock image, the Internet
Explorer symbole (blue "e" with a diagonal ring around it, the blue "W" in a
square that indicates a Word document file, etc. I don't want functioning
icons, just images of them to use in explanations.

Please forgive me if this is an oft-repeated question. I know I have seen
this somewhere on the web, but I never saved it. I've been searching for it
for two days now and can't retrace my steps, tsk.

TIA, Max

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TWF4?=,

I am creating a document of error messages and dialog boxes, and I can copy
the message texts, but don't know how to copy the little icons that also
appear on these boxes, as well as other computer and internet icons. They
are things like the red X box to close a window, the yellow triangle with an
exclamation mark in it, a checkbox with a checkmark already on it, open and
closed folder icons, the Outlook square with the clock image, the Internet
Explorer symbole (blue "e" with a diagonal ring around it, the blue "W" in a
square that indicates a Word document file, etc. I don't want functioning
icons, just images of them to use in explanations.

All the icons are stored in DLL files, somewhere, but finding and accessing
them is a topic that belongs in a group that handles programming the Windows
API. Most of us "mere mortals" capture them in a screen shot. Everyone has that
capability in the Print Screen button on their keyboard. That puts a picture of
the screen on the Clipboard and you can paste it into a graphics program.

Most of us who create documentation use a program such as PaintShopPro or
Snag-It so that we can capture just the portion of the screen we want.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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