Are there any alternatives to Microsoft Office icons that I can use in my application?

Question

Microsoft Office icons are copyrighted by Microsoft and this prevents us from using them in non-Microsoft applications due to their licence terms.

I\'m trying to find so

Answer 1

I am a fan of dry icons.

http://dryicons.com/free-icons/preview/classy-icons-set/

here is the free use license

http://dryicons.com/terms/#free-license

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Answer 2

You can have a look at Deviant Art :

Office icons

But it's likely that what is proposed there is already breaking Microsoft license though.

Answer 3

Don't look exactly like the office icons of course, if they did they would be the copyrighted office icons and not an alternative, but I personally like the Silk Icon set. It's free and contains many nice looking and useful icons.

It's a preview of all the icons as well there.

As for icons representing excel documents, etc, you could for example use the page_white_excel icon. Think there should be some more general spreadsheet icons there too, but can't find it now...