Free icons for office ribbon development?

I'm building by first solution that includes a custom ribbon tab for Excel. Do you know of any good free icons set that I can use for this?

Yeah, I get very many sites that have icons. I haven't found any that look really professional. I figured that there are usually some sites that are much better than others and that hopefully someone here knew which sites are the best for office-like icons in particular and other icons as well.

It's images like:

Toda
Workweek
Week
Next
Previous

I would like to use the built-in office icons, but I believe I am not allowed:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8...op-application

I'll try to google more for reliable sites with icon sets and then try to find something on those.

Originally Posted by Andy Pope

Actually I read that slightly differently. The reference is to "Microsoft product icons" I think this is the icon used for Excel or Word rather than the icons within the product such as Print or Bold.

You probably can not simply copy the icons from excel to use in your own stand alone (non excel) application, but you are not doing that.
You are just making use of the icons contained within excel for use within excel. I would suggest the majority of excel developers make use of the icons in this way.

Thanks for clarifying that Andy! Your reading comprehension was better than mine :-)

Do you know where I can find/download all icons for the Excel ribbons?

I've checked the Office folder on my computer but haven't found them. I've also googled and checked micorsoft.com/download, but couldn't find the icon set.

I use font awesome icons extensively in web projects:

Project: http://fontawesome.io/icons/
Preview: http://fontawesome.io/
License: http://fontawesome.io/license/

The google material design icons are pretty good too:
Project:https://github.com/google/material-design-icons
Preview: http://google.github.io/material-design-icons/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The fontawesome icons look great! But is there any easy way of using them for the desktop ribbon? I found this link explaining how to do it: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/634540/Using-Font-Icons, but it looks pretty complicated. Is there a simpler way?

This will let you download as png image files and set the dimension http://fa2png.io/

You just then need to convert to bmp - I think Paint will do this though you might want a proper image editor like Gimp

This might be a better option though http://iconion.com/

That is awesme! I was happy with getting the office icons with the help of Andy Pope. Iconion was awesome as well!

The strange thing is that I also spent hours (i kid u not) googling and downloading icons from other places and wasn't able to find anything remotely as good.

Hey all,

Just wanted to let you know I've done a review of several free and paid icon vendors, particularly related to Office (and Excel) ribbons:
http://www.bernardvukas.com/need-rib...e-development/

I hope you guys enjoy it.