NEW! Insert Icons in Office 2016

Question

Hi Insiders,

My name is Constance, and I’m a program manager on the Office Graphics team. We're excited to announce the availability of a new collection of icons. Browse through more than 500 icons to find one that suits your purpose, and then edit its fill and outline to match a theme.

Check it out!

Availability

If you receive builds of Office 2016 for Windows through the Office Insiders Slow or Fast level, you can now add icons into any Word document, Excel workbook, PowerPoint presentation or Outlook email.

Get started

In any app, click Insert > Icons:

Scenarios to try

Insert icons

1. Click Insert > Icons.
2. From the Insert Icon dialog box, search for an icon, or browse by category.
3. Insert the icon into your document, presentation, workbook, or e-mail message.

Edit Icons

• After you insert an icon, use the formatting options on the Graphics Tools tab to change the icon’s fill or outline, or to add a visual effect such as glow or shadow. 

Let us know what you think!

Thanks,

The Office Graphics Team

Answer 1

Hi Sebastian, try the following procedure . . . it worked for me. I couldn't wait for the solution coming from Microsoft so I did my own research online and found this solution.

"Be careful while dealing with registry entries"

Open the Registry Editor (type "regedit" on the search or run bar)

Go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer / User Shell Folders / History

Double click on History and copy the string on the Value Data field (should be something like this: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History); close and then double click on Cache and paste it in the same field.

Hopefully works for you too...let me know.

Gerry (******@usa.com)

Answer 2

Hi Gerry,

thanks for your help!! Unfortunately, this did not work for me. :( 

Do you have any other ideas?

Greetings

Sebastian

Answer 3

Not really Sebastian, I've been having a lot of different issues since I upgraded my Office package and this last procedure addressed most of them so far. Keep digging and posting into different forums and soon you'll find a solution.

Check your Temp file environment, for some unexplained reason Windows 10 tends to assign temp files in the wrong folder and conflicts with Office.

Regards, Gerry

Answer 4

Hi Sebastian,

Since Gerry's solution didn't work for you, can you try deleting your browser cache (via your browser settings) and see if that fixes the issue? It's possible that your browser cache folder has become too full, and that's why the images aren't being downloaded.

Anneliese

Answer 5

Hi Anneliese,

thank you for your reply! But again, it seems that this is not the solution for me :( I deleted every chache from every browser on my system.

The funny thing is, that everything on my laptop with the same config (win10 64bit, office 365 32bit, same firewall settings, same network...) is working fine.

@Gerry: Thanks for your advice. I checked all temp configs: they seem to be ok. I've also deleted every temp folder, but again no solution...

Regards

Sebastian