There are hundreds of icons in Office. Many new ones were added recently (May 2019). Adding icons is easy – Insert – Icons – search for an icon or see it and choose it. Multiple icons can be added. It is easy enough. Why do I need to write how to add icons?
Because there is a very nice feature available which makes adding multiple icons really easy – but it is not obvious. Why is it not obvious? Because we usually don’t think of our convenience. We are used to inefficiency!
Adding multiple Icons in Office
Suppose I want to add three icons – one for laptop, one for idea and one for mobile. What will you do? One of the two things…
- Add one icon at a time by going to the Insert Icon three times.
This is obviously inefficient. - Go to Insert Icon – when you find the mobile icon by scrolling, you see the Laptop icon next to it – so you add two of them together. But for the Idea icon, you have to do more scrolling or go to the dialog once more. Again – inefficient.
Add multiple unrelated icons in one stroke
Go to the Insert – Icons dialog. Use the search text box to find what you want. Select the icon. DO NOT insert it yet. Search for another one, find it, select it. Repeat it till all icons are found. Even if the search results do not show it, your selections are remembered.
The Insert button shows how many it has remembered in brackets. So, don’t worry about inserting icons. Just find the set of icons you want and then insert all of them once and for all.
We usually don’t notice this level of sophistication and end up going to the dialog repeatedly to add multiple Icons.
Here is the video of how to insert multiple Icons in Office
Now that you know, use it to your advantage. Cheers!
