Using Microsoft Office Clip Art

Clip art is essential to liven up your presentations, but unlike the original Keynote, Keynote 2 doesn't come with any clip art. You can purchase clip art collections on CD or DVD, of course. But if you own Microsoft Office (v. X or 2004), you already have a clip art treasure trove waiting for you.

Microsoft Office comes with hundreds of pieces of clip art that you can use in your Keynote presentations. In fact, you can even use the downloadable clip art that Microsoft makes available online on their Design Gallery Live site (http://dgl.microsoft.com), as long as you import it into Office first.

You access Office's clip art by using the Microsoft Clip Gallery from inside one of the Office applications. The Clip Gallery is one of the Office helper applications that is shared by Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (but not by Entourage).

To import Office clip art

1.	Create a new document in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
2.	Choose Insert > Picture > Clip Art. The Clip Gallery appears ( Figure 11.16 ). Figure 11.16. The Microsoft Clip Gallery contains hundreds of pieces of clip art that you can use in Keynote.
3.	Click the category in which you want to look for images.
4.	Select the image you want to add to your slide.
5.	Choose Edit > Copy, or press .
6.	Click Close.
7.	Switch to Keynote.
8.	In the Slide Navigator, click on the destination slide.
9.	Choose Edit > Paste, or press . The image will often appear larger than your entire slide.
10.	Use the image's selection handles to resize the image to the size you want on your slide ( Figure 11.17 ). Figure 11.17. The Office clip art will appear in Keynote too large for your slide, but it scales down nicely , with no distortion.
11.	Drag the image to where you want it on your slide.

Tips

• If you try to insert a clip art image into a Word document, copy it from the document, and then paste it into Keynote, it won't work. You'll just get an empty free text box in Keynote. You must copy the image from the Clip Gallery, or from PowerPoint.

• You can get a nice effect by pasting clip art in, resizing it so that it takes up the whole area of the slide, then sending it to the back, behind your text, thus turning it into the slide background ( Figure 11.18 ).

  Figure 11.18. Using a piece of clip art as a slide background can make for an attractive slide.