Important   Office 2007 does not ship with clip art. Instead, by purchasing Office 2007, you have access to a large collection of the clip art that you want from Office Online. For more information, refer to How to download clip art for more information regarding how to download clip art to your computer.

The following list addresses some issues that you may have when you try to find clip art.

• There are way too many clips in the Results box, and they didn't match the search criteria.

  If the clips returned in the Results box don't seem to match the criteria that you set, try to use more keywords. In addition, you can reduce the number of collections that are searched by clearing one or more collections in the Search in list. You can also choose to return a smaller set of media types (for example, omit sounds) by clearing one or more media types in the Results should be list.

• The clips in the Results box didn't match the search criteria.

  If the clips returned in the Results box don't seem to match the criteria that you set, try to use fewer keywords or less restrictions on collection and media type.

• The clips in the Results box are not what I'm looking for.

  If the results of your search don't show what you were looking for, make sure that Web Collections are included in your search. In the Search in box, click the arrow and verify that Web Collections is checked.

  You can use everyday language to describe the clip that you want to find, or you can search by entering the file name of the media clip that you want to find. If you don't know the exact file name, you can substitute wildcard characters for one or more real characters.

  • Use the asterisk (*) as a substitute for zero or more characters in a file name. For example, type car*.jpg to locate file names such as "cardboard.jpg"or "carton.jpg". The asterisk (*) must be put at the end of the string, but before the file extension--it cannot appear at the beginning or in the middle of the string (for example, *board.jpg or car*d.jpg would not work).

  • Use the question mark (?) as a substitute for a single character in a file name. For example, type car?.jpg to locate file names such as "car1.jpg" or "car2.jpg", but not "carton.jpg".

• I can't find the latest downloaded clips from my camera, scanner, or the web.

  Before you can find clips in Clip Art task pane, you have to add the clips to Microsoft Clip Organizer.

  To add clips, do one or more of the following:

  • Scan for and add new clips

    1. The first time Microsoft Clip Organizer opens, you will be able to organize clips and set up automatic organizing of new clips, or you can use the procedure later.

    2. On the Clip Art task pane, at the bottom, click Organize clips.
    3. On the Microsoft Clip Organizer File menu, point to Add Clips to Organizer, and then click Automatically and do one of the following:

       • If you want to specify folders to be scanned, click Options. Select the check boxes next to the folders that you want to be automatically scanned for new clips, and then click Catalog.

       • If you want all folders to be scanned for media files, click OK.

    4.  Note    New clips are added to Clip Organizer in My Collections in folders that reflect the name of the folder in which they were found on the disk you scanned.

  • Add from file
    1. On the Microsoft Clip Organizer File menu, point to Add Clips to Organizer, and then click On My Own.
    2. Locate the folder that contains the clip you want to add, and then select the clip.
    3. To select a collection, click Add to, select the collection where you want to see the clip, and then click OK.
    4. Click Add.
  • Add from Office document
    1. In a Microsoft Office program, click the picture you want to add.
    2. Drag the picture to the collection where you want it to appear.

  Clips can be added to Microsoft Clip Organizer automatically when you scan or download if you start the process from inside Clip Organizer. For more information, in the Clip Organizer main window, click Clip Organizer Help on the Help menu.

• The clips are part of a shared collection of clips on your corporate network.

  If you know the clips that you want are on your corporate network, they will be added to your Shared Catalogs folder in Microsoft Clip Organizer. They will be available through the Clip Art task pane in Microsoft Office.

• The clips shipped with a previous Microsoft product.

  You can add clips that are on your hard drive from a previous Microsoft product by having Microsoft Clip Organizer scan for new files or by adding the clips yourself. In the main Clip Organizer window, on the File menu, point to Add Clips to Organizer, and then click Automatically (if you want Clip Organizer to find the clips) or On My Own (if you know where the clips are).

  Or, you can run an earlier version of Clip Organizer (also known as Clip Gallery) in addition to Clip Organizer.

• The clips were on the web and your web connection failed.

  Reconnect to the web and then try search again.