Where is all the Clip Art.

[John G]

Using XP and Office 2003.
A few weeks ago Insert clipArt worked as one might expect.

Today after seeing some notes about clip art being improved, I searched
for TRANSPORTATION and got just ten pictures.
Word fails just the same.
Has anyone else noticed problem.

If I go directly to the MS site then there a 100 pagesof pictures.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Office 2003 shipped with very little clipart. You can download and save the clips
from the Office web site, thus building a library.

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

Hi John G ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| Using XP and Office 2003.
|| A few weeks ago Insert clipArt worked as one might expect.
||
|| Today after seeing some notes about clip art being improved, I
|| searched for TRANSPORTATION and got just ten pictures.
|| Word fails just the same.
|| Has anyone else noticed problem.
||
|| If I go directly to the MS site then there a 100 pagesof pictures.

Welcome back John. Be sure that your Office 2003 is set to search the web
for clipart items when doing your searches. Your results should increase
tremendously. Be sure to open Publisher and go to Tools > Options > General
Tab > Service Options and enable all of the Online Content options. Also
make sure Web Collections are enabled in the Search In field in the Clipart
Task Pane. Doing this shows 100+ Transportation clips in the task pane of
Publisher.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[John G]

Hi John G ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| Using XP and Office 2003.
|| A few weeks ago Insert clipArt worked as one might expect.
||
|| Today after seeing some notes about clip art being improved, I
|| searched for TRANSPORTATION and got just ten pictures.
|| Word fails just the same.
|| Has anyone else noticed problem.
||
|| If I go directly to the MS site then there a 100 pagesof pictures.

Welcome back John. Be sure that your Office 2003 is set to search the web
for clipart items when doing your searches. Your results should increase
tremendously. Be sure to open Publisher and go to Tools > Options > General
Tab > Service Options and enable all of the Online Content options. Also
make sure Web Collections are enabled in the Search In field in the Clipart
Task Pane. Doing this shows 100+ Transportation clips in the task pane of
Publisher.
--

Brian,

Honestly I did not know where to look but as I had not changed anything
conciously I checked as you said and those settings are as you said.

Enabling or disabling Web collections changes nothing
The 10 Items found come only when enabling Search in Office Collections

Still only 10 pictures. The funny thing is WORD fails identically.
( Yes I understand it is probably not a Publisher problem per say)

The only change I can think of, is insatalling Firefox (IE competitor).
May have to remove it to stop IE sulking??

So somehow the Insert function is not searching the Web
And yes I am connected, I have an ADSL link that gives great service and
this problem is quite repeatable.
Clicking Clip Art on Office Online at bottom of Clip Art window works
fine.

So this is a mystery I would lke to solve but it is not an immediate
problem.

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

In John G <[email protected]> posted:
|| Honestly I did not know where to look but as I had not changed
|| anything conciously I checked as you said and those settings are as
|| you said.
||
|| Enabling or disabling Web collections changes nothing
|| The 10 Items found come only when enabling Search in Office
|| Collections
||
|| Still only 10 pictures. The funny thing is WORD fails identically.
|| ( Yes I understand it is probably not a Publisher problem per say)
||
|| The only change I can think of, is insatalling Firefox (IE
|| competitor). May have to remove it to stop IE sulking??
||
|| So somehow the Insert function is not searching the Web
|| And yes I am connected, I have an ADSL link that gives great service
|| and this problem is quite repeatable.
|| Clicking Clip Art on Office Online at bottom of Clip Art window works
|| fine.

I hope Mary can pop in on this as well, as I am not sure where else to look,
besides your firewall. What happens, if anything if you disable your
firewall? Can you test this on another machine?
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Hi John, Might try clearing your cache, in IE, tools, Internet Options, delete files.
Be sure all the collections are checked.
Have you installed the ActiveX? control?
http://office.microsoft.com/templates/axinstall.aspx?

 

[John G]

Hi John, Might try clearing your cache, in IE, tools, Internet Options, delete files.
Be sure all the collections are checked.
Have you installed the ActiveX? control?
http://office.microsoft.com/templates/axinstall.aspx?

--

Tried all that and tried on Laptop connected to same network.

Laptop works fine so it is a real mystery.

I can live without it but, does it affect others?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Maybe the path has changed? The 2002 & 2003 Organizer are the same.
How to redirect Clip Organizer file paths in Clip Organizer 2002
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=827672
Your MDAC components can be refreshed, that sometimes helps too. You need MDAC 2.8
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/
Do you have the Office service pack?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

Hi John G ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:
|| Laptop works fine so it is a real mystery.

So you are saying that the laptop was able to find more transportation
images?
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[John G]

In the Clip Art task pane, when not dropped down, what is in the "Search in:"
box? What is in the "Results should be:" box? Who is your ISP, and how fast
is your connection"?

Thanks,

Eric Lawrence [MSFT]

Tried all that and tried on Laptop connected to same network.

Laptop works fine so it is a real mystery.

I can live without it but, does it affect others?

Eric,
A few weeks ago it worked fine.
All collections and All Media are on and the ISP and link are same as
Laptop so thats OK.