All,

Im currently stupified by a very stupid MS bug, and would like some
feedback:

In XL 2002 SP3 I noticed the following:

First you need your button color to be not from the 16 standard windows
colors(the 3D color) so your commandbars will not use the same color as
the button faces. Just choose a nice screen appearance scheme like
"wheat".

Now just left click the command bars, select customize, select any
*button* with a picture and left click again and select copy face.

Now close evereything off and paste in the active document(or in MS
paint or in photoshop or ...), enlarge to see how it looks (ugly).

Now do the same again but press Copy Face *twice* in succesion. Now
paste on your sheet and it should look better.

The same goes for Word 2002.

It seems MS screwed up on getting the background color when doing a
copyface. The same goes for VBA BTW. XL2000 does not suffer from this
issue.

has this been reported before?

Notice 2002 has properties for the picture and the Mask, so you could
do without CopyFace unless you want to be compatible with older Office
versions. Also note with copying and pasting bewteen Office apps MS
cheats, since for builtin pictures it just reassigns the FacID property
instead of copying the bitmap. you can test this by copying pictures
not available in older office versions(i.e. from new features) to a
button of an older version of office, the picture will be blank, even
when there is a bitmap on the clipboard.

DM Unseen