The Microsoft Clip Organizer contains drawings, photographs, sounds, videos, and other media files — called clips (clip: A single media file, including art, sound, animation, or movies.) — that you can insert and use in presentations, publications, and other Microsoft Office documents.
In an Office program, you can find, add, and organize media clips by using:
- Clip Art This command, found on the Insert menu, opens a task pane (task pane: A window within an Office program that provides commonly used commands. Its location and small size allow you to use these commands while still working on your files.) where you can search for clips. Although this task pane resembles the Office Basic File Search task pane, you use it to find media clips, not documents. You can search for media files based on descriptive keywords, file name, file format (file format: The way in which information is stored in a file so that a program can open and save the file. A file's structure defines how it is stored and displayed. File format is indicated by an extension after the file name, such as .doc or .docx.), and clip collections (clip collection: A hierarchical organization of media clips. You can create your own clip collections, import clip collections, or add, move, or copy clips from one collection to another.).
- Microsoft Clip Organizer The link to Clip Organizer is at the bottom of the Clip Art task pane under Organize clips, which opens the main Clip Organizer window. You can use Clip Organizer to browse through clip collections, add clips, or catalog clips in ways that make sense to you. For example, you can create a collection to group the clips you use most frequently, or let Clip Organizer automatically add and catalog media files on your hard disk.
- Clips on the Web If you have an Internet connection open, clip art search results will automatically include content from the Microsoft Office Online Web site. Or, you can visit the site yourself by clicking the link at the bottom of the task pane.
- Microsoft Office Online If you have an Internet connection, you can use the Microsoft Office Online Web site to purchase a variety of clip-related options.
