Sleeper: Change excel icon

[gibbo1715]

Is it possible to change the desktop icon for just one excel workbook to my own image and leave all others with the standard excel icon?

[Killian]

If you make it a shortcut to your workbook you can change the icon in the shortcut properties

[gibbo1715]

wont work for what im looking to do, i need to change just the one icon if that is possible

[Brandtrock]

Check out Colo's solution here: Colo's Junk Room

Check out Daniell Klann's solution here: Daniel Klann.com

HTH

[Paleo]

I have copied it here for you!

1. Add an image control on the worksheet. (In this example, the image control is placed in the Sheet1)
You can add image controls View - Toolbars - Control Toolbox from main menu bar.

2. Right click for Propertiesof the image control and select appropriate ico file(with an extension of .ico) from picture property box in the properties window.
Now you can see the picture on the Sheet1 as follows.

3.Place the following in the standard module.

Note: Some kind of ico image doesn't work. I am not sure about the reason.

Option Explicit
 
Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" _
(ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String) _
As Long
Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageA" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal wMsg As Long, _
ByVal wParam As Long, _
lParam As Any) As Long
Declare Function DrawMenuBar Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Const WM_SETICON = &H80
Const ICON_SMALL = 0&
Const ICON_BIG = 1&
 
Sub ChangingExcelIcon()
MsgBox "Change Excel Icon"
Call ChangeXLIcon(Sheet1.Image1.Picture.Handle)
End Sub
 
Sub MakeExcelIconDefaultAgain()
MsgBox "Make Excel Icon default again"
Call ChangeXLIcon
End Sub
 
Private Sub ChangeXLIcon(Optional ByVal hIcon As Long = 0&)
Dim hWnd As Long
Dim lngRet As Long
'Get the handle of Excel application
hWnd = FindWindow("XLMAIN", Application.Caption)
lngRet = SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETICON, ICON_SMALL, ByVal hIcon)
lngRet = SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETICON, ICON_BIG, ByVal hIcon)
lngRet = DrawMenuBar(hWnd)
End Sub

[gibbo1715]

thank you for your help but what im after is changing the excel icon that appears on your desktop ( Or anywhere else) for just that one instance of excel if that is possible

[Jacob Hilderbrand]

• Create a shortcut to the file

• Right click the shortcut

• Properties

• Change Icon...

[Brandtrock]

thank you for your help but what im after is changing the excel icon that appears on your desktop ( Or anywhere else) for just that one instance of excel if that is possible

• Create a shortcut to the file

• Right click the shortcut

• Properties

• Change Icon...

When someone wearing Killian's clothes and bearing a striking resemblance to Killian suggested the same approach that Jake has just posted in reply to your post, you said it wouldn't work for your situation. Sorry that I interpreted that to mean the icon in the window.

Paleo, Thanks for including the info from Colo's page.

Anyhow, hope this helps someone.

Regards,

[Paleo]

Hi gibbo1715,

is it solved??