Accessing Clip Art From Older Office Version

[Don Potter]

I recently purchased Office 2003 Professional through a
Home Use Program offered by my employer. I installed it
over my previous version of Office (Office 2000
Premium). During the install, I choose to remove the
older Office applications.

After the install was complete, I noticed there was much
less clip art included with the new version. I found the
clip art on my old install CD-ROMs and copied them to my
hard drive. I then pointed clip organizer to the old
files. This allowed me to access the clip art, but with
one major drawback: the keywords used to aid in searching
are lost.

Is there a way to import the old clip art into the new
clip organizer such that it is aware of the keywords
associated with each clip art file?

 

[Paul Ballou]

You can import the old clips into clip organizer but you will need to add
keywords manually. you can run office setup from your older version and
install just clip gallery to use your old clipart and still have the
keywords, If you do choose to install clip gallery to launch clip gallery
from within an office application you will need to go Insert | Object |
Microsoft Clip Gallery from the list this will launch Clip Gallery

I believe MS is working on a tool that will allow Clip Gallery Clips to be
imported into Clip Organizer with the KeyWords Intact.

Clips for Office 2003 users is being delivered by way of the Web
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart
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Paul Ballou
MVP Office
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