When you browse for clip art while connected to the Internet, the Office Online clip art automatically appears. However, you can also visit the Office Online Web site to browse the clip art directly.

To open a Web browser window for the Office Online clip art gallery, do one of the following:

• From the Clip Art pane, click the Clip art on Office Online link.
• From the Clip Organizer window, click the Clips Online toolbar button.

Either way, the same Web page displays (provided you have Internet access). It contains information about clip art, links to art collections, featured clips, and more. It is constantly changing, but Figure 24-33 shows how it looked on the day I visited.

If you have a full-time Internet connection, there is little reason to download clips to your hard disk from the Office Online Web site because your clip art search by keyword will always include this Web site.

However, if your Internet connection is not always active, you might want to download the clips you need in advance so that they will be available when you need them.

FIGURE 24-33

Visit the Office Online clip art Web page for more information and more clip art.

To copy clips from the Office Online Web site to your hard disk for later use, follow these steps:

1. From the Office Online clip art Web page, scroll down to the Browse Clip Art and Media Categories list and click a category to display it. The available clips in the category appear, as in the example in Figure 24-34.
2. In the list of clips, select the checkboxes for the clips that you want. You may find multiple pages of clips in that category; click the Next arrow to go to the next page.

   FIGURE 24-34
   You can download clips from Office Online for future use.

   

3. When you finish making selections, click the Download hyperlink at the left. For example, if you select five items, the link is labeled “Download 5 items.”
4. If this is the first time that you have used the service, a Terms of Use screen appears. Scroll down to the bottom and click Accept to continue.
5. Click Download Now.
6. A dialog box appears, saying that it is downloading the file Clipart.mpf, and asking whether you want to save or open it. Choose Open.

MPF stands for Media Package File. When downloading one of these files, you should choose to open it rather than save it, because opening it integrates its content automatically with the Clip Organizer. Saving the file stores it somewhere on your hard disk without adding the clips to the Clip
Organizer. However, you might need to do this if you download clips that you want to use on another PC; in this case, you can transfer the MPF file to the other PC before double-clicking to open it.

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