Adding Clip Art

You can insert drawings, movies, sounds, and stock photography into your PowerPoint 2007 presentation. These items are typically stored in Clip Organizer, which places your clips into four collections:

• My Collections   Clips you create and add to your own collection.

• Office Collections   Clips offered in your 2007 Microsoft Office system.

• Shared Collections   Clips that are typically available on shared file servers or common workstations. Your network administrator must create and export the collection for use.

• Web Collections   Clips available through the Microsoft Office Online collection. These are available only when you have an active Internet connection.

To add clip art to your presentation, follow these steps:

1. Open your presentation to the slide where you want to add the clip art.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Clip Art.

3. Choose your clip art from the Clip Art pane on the right side of your screen. If you need more choices, click the Clip Art On Office Online link at the bottom of the pane.

4. Right-click the selected piece of art.

5. Click Insert.

Add Clips to Your Clip Organizer

When you open Clip Organizer for the first time, you can let it scan your computer for photos and other media files. It will organize the files it finds into separate collections, but it doesn’t move or copy files. Instead, it leaves the files in their original locations and creates shortcuts to them so you can preview, open, or insert a file without digging through to its installed location. If you didn’t allow Clip Organizer to search the first time you opened it, have no fear. Just follow these steps to automatically scan for clips:

1. In the Clip Art pane, click the Organize Clips link. It appears at the bottom of the pane.

2. In the Favorites-Microsoft Clip Organizer dialog box, click File.

3. Click Add Clips To Organizer.

4. Click Automatically. The Add Clips To Organizer dialog box opens.

5. If you want Clip Organizer to catalog clips in certain folders, click Options, and select or clear the check boxes for the folders you want. (It might take a few minutes for Clip Organizer to list the folders on your computer.) Click Catalog.

6. If you did not select specific folders, click OK. Clip Organizer will create collections for you and add keywords to your clips for easy searching.