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Do Icons Change But Keep The Same Faceid On Differing Excel Versions

I have a workbook with a custom menu and toolbar. I have assigned icons to the menu and toolbar using existing faceId's. My concern is, if a user has say Excel 2k, another has Excel 2003 and another Excel 2007, would the icons stay the same, assuming that minor changes to the image have occured. The last thing I want to do is code up different faceId's for different versions of Excel.

By minor changes I mean colours updated, perhaps even a slight tweak to the image to make it clearer, but the essential meaning of the icon still remains.

I know that there is a "findcontrol" function I could use, but it would not work so well in my case. I used a macro to extract all icons found and show the faceId's. I just chose the icon that best fit my macro.


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