categorizing clipart

[r]

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

 

[Mary Sauer]

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.

 

[r]

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]

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.