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categorizing clipart
I am really stuck!
I can't seem to get ms clipart into categories. I am trying to add the clipart from a pc at work to mine The work pc is Office NT 2003, mine is Office XP. All the clipart at work is in Program files/msoffice/media. (about 600mb) I have replaced the media folder on my pc with the one from the office, but whatever I do I can't get my pc to recognise any categories. The only difference between the two folders (apart from the amount of clipart) was that the NT version had some DLL files which I didn't. I have also added the clipart from Publisher 2003 ( which I have installed on my pc), thinking it would be categorized and usable in Word, but it isn't. I seem to have huge numbers of wmf files etc - far more than the very few which show when I want to add clipart to a document. They all work fine, but they have no description: just reference numbers. I've tried the ms web site, but can't find anything useful & following the help files does no good either! Am I missing the obvious? Any help would be v welcome! TIA r |
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categorizing clipart
Are you using the Organizer at work? Office 2003 shipped with very little clipart.
Office XP and Office 2003 use the same Organizer. Anything before that will have been the Clip Gallery, the two are not compatible. If you want to use the clipart and retain the categories and catalogs, you will have to install the Clip Gallery on your computer. Open the Organizer, file, click "add clips to Organizer", click "automatically". If the images are Organizer clips they will be categorized and cataloged. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "r" wrote in message ... I am really stuck! I can't seem to get ms clipart into categories. I am trying to add the clipart from a pc at work to mine The work pc is Office NT 2003, mine is Office XP. All the clipart at work is in Program files/msoffice/media. (about 600mb) I have replaced the media folder on my pc with the one from the office, but whatever I do I can't get my pc to recognise any categories. The only difference between the two folders (apart from the amount of clipart) was that the NT version had some DLL files which I didn't. I have also added the clipart from Publisher 2003 ( which I have installed on my pc), thinking it would be categorized and usable in Word, but it isn't. I seem to have huge numbers of wmf files etc - far more than the very few which show when I want to add clipart to a document. They all work fine, but they have no description: just reference numbers. I've tried the ms web site, but can't find anything useful & following the help files does no good either! Am I missing the obvious? Any help would be v welcome! TIA r |
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categorizing clipart
Thanks for the reply.
I have done that a couple of times and the organizer has added every image file on my computer, including all my digital photographs (several hundred). That's fine, but nothing is categorized, so none of it is any good. On the work (a college) pc if you do a search (e.g. "medical") in the clip organizer it will come up with masses of specific clips, including animations and sound. Each clip is identified with a recognisable name. I can't reproduce that on my pc, even though I am using the same media folder (program files\msoffice\media) as the one at work. I thought I knew a little bit about computers etc, but this is just beyond me & very frustrating. Even the publisher clips aren't identified by ms Office, which seems to contradict the idea of seamless interaction between ms products on the same platform. Now I have to find a way of removing all the spurious clips that the organizer has just added - fingers crossed that it doesn't actually delete them off the pc! Gosh, I hate this thing! r "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... Are you using the Organizer at work? Office 2003 shipped with very little clipart. Office XP and Office 2003 use the same Organizer. Anything before that will have been the Clip Gallery, the two are not compatible. If you want to use the clipart and retain the categories and catalogs, you will have to install the Clip Gallery on your computer. Open the Organizer, file, click "add clips to Organizer", click "automatically". If the images are Organizer clips they will be categorized and cataloged. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "r" wrote in message ... I am really stuck! I can't seem to get ms clipart into categories. I am trying to add the clipart from a pc at work to mine The work pc is Office NT 2003, mine is Office XP. All the clipart at work is in Program files/msoffice/media. (about 600mb) I have replaced the media folder on my pc with the one from the office, but whatever I do I can't get my pc to recognise any categories. The only difference between the two folders (apart from the amount of clipart) was that the NT version had some DLL files which I didn't. I have also added the clipart from Publisher 2003 ( which I have installed on my pc), thinking it would be categorized and usable in Word, but it isn't. I seem to have huge numbers of wmf files etc - far more than the very few which show when I want to add clipart to a document. They all work fine, but they have no description: just reference numbers. I've tried the ms web site, but can't find anything useful & following the help files does no good either! Am I missing the obvious? Any help would be v welcome! TIA r |
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categorizing clipart
Do you have the media disk that shipped with Office XP? Let the Organizer find the
clips on it, they will be cataloged or insert the media disk and run the setup. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "r" wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply. I have done that a couple of times and the organizer has added every image file on my computer, including all my digital photographs (several hundred). That's fine, but nothing is categorized, so none of it is any good. On the work (a college) pc if you do a search (e.g. "medical") in the clip organizer it will come up with masses of specific clips, including animations and sound. Each clip is identified with a recognisable name. I can't reproduce that on my pc, even though I am using the same media folder (program files\msoffice\media) as the one at work. I thought I knew a little bit about computers etc, but this is just beyond me & very frustrating. Even the publisher clips aren't identified by ms Office, which seems to contradict the idea of seamless interaction between ms products on the same platform. Now I have to find a way of removing all the spurious clips that the organizer has just added - fingers crossed that it doesn't actually delete them off the pc! Gosh, I hate this thing! r "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... Are you using the Organizer at work? Office 2003 shipped with very little clipart. Office XP and Office 2003 use the same Organizer. Anything before that will have been the Clip Gallery, the two are not compatible. If you want to use the clipart and retain the categories and catalogs, you will have to install the Clip Gallery on your computer. Open the Organizer, file, click "add clips to Organizer", click "automatically". If the images are Organizer clips they will be categorized and cataloged. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "r" wrote in message ... I am really stuck! I can't seem to get ms clipart into categories. I am trying to add the clipart from a pc at work to mine The work pc is Office NT 2003, mine is Office XP. All the clipart at work is in Program files/msoffice/media. (about 600mb) I have replaced the media folder on my pc with the one from the office, but whatever I do I can't get my pc to recognise any categories. The only difference between the two folders (apart from the amount of clipart) was that the NT version had some DLL files which I didn't. I have also added the clipart from Publisher 2003 ( which I have installed on my pc), thinking it would be categorized and usable in Word, but it isn't. I seem to have huge numbers of wmf files etc - far more than the very few which show when I want to add clipart to a document. They all work fine, but they have no description: just reference numbers. I've tried the ms web site, but can't find anything useful & following the help files does no good either! Am I missing the obvious? Any help would be v welcome! TIA r |
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