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

Sebastian, thanks for trying. I sent you a private message to get a bit more info, do you mind checking?

Answer 2

Hey Guys,

This feature looks amazing. When will it be available on the Mac version? Was hoping it would be there but alas.

Answer 3

Honestly? They're an also-ran to Emojis, today's standard for communications con brio. These are so80s — old school clip art designed to never induce apoplexy in a doddering, 108-year-old CEO of some walking-dead corporation.

I hear Emojis can be had, but adding Store to a custom item on the ribbon results in a greyed-out icon for it and searching the Microsoft Store in a browser turns up nothing for Emoji. Oh, well.

What would really make me happy? Letting us use webfonts (say, Google Fonts) in email that will survive cross-platform readership. Really, aren't we over those dog-tired "safe fonts," a throwback to the days of IBM Selectrics? Despite a major revolution in typography and font design, we've been given nothing new since Georgia — and that was 14 years ago! 

Borrrrring.

Answer 4

Hi,

Can anyone explain why the Icons feature is not available in the recently released First Release for Deferred Channel (Version 1701)  This seems a bit odd because the icons feature was first released in version 1611, to Current Channel, released on 6th December?

It's quite confusing for checking of new features, and functionality if features are not cumulative between releases, and some get dropped out of Current Channel.

I can make an educated guess, that perhaps the feature doesn't yet meet the quality bar for the Deferred Channel, and therefore has not been included.  I don't have a problem with that if this is the case, but if it is "Please Communicate it!!!!" I would be interested to know that what the situation is here with the missing Icons feature in deferred channel.

Many thanks

Janson

Answer 5

Hi Janson,

Sorry for the confusion. You are correct, Icons did not yet meet the quality bar and stabilization period for the Deferred Channel. Features tend to take a while to get release through the Deferred Channel as they need some time to stabilize.

Thanks!

Constance