There are probably images elsewhere on your PC that you would like to use in PowerPoint besides the Microsoft Office clip art collection. For example, perhaps you have some scanned photos or some clip art that you have downloaded from a Web site that offers free clips. If you need to use this downloaded clip art only once or twice, you can simply insert it with the Picture button on the Insert tab.

However, if you want to use the clip art more often, you can add it to your Clip Organizer. You can include images in all image formats in the Clip Organizer, not just the default format that PowerPoint’s clip art uses. The image formats that PowerPoint supports are shown in Table 24-1.

TABLE 24-1
PowerPoint Image Formats

BMP EPS PCX
CDR FPX PNG
CGM GIF RLE
DIB JPG/JPEG/JPE/JFIF TGA
DRW MIX TIF/TIFF
DXF PCD WMF
EMF PCT/PICT WPG

The Clip Organizer is not only for clip art, but also for scanned and digital camera photos, video clips, and sound clips. It can accept many sound and video formats.

Adding a clip to the Clip Organizer does not physically move the clip; it simply creates a link to it in the Clip Organizer so that the clip is included when you search or browse for clips.

Any clips that you add are placed in My Collections; you cannot add clips to the Office Collections or Web Collections categories. This is the case whether you add them automatically or manually.

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