Adding Clipart to Office 2004 for Mac Online via Microsoft Clip Art

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argelius@rghessel.com - 28 Jun 2005 19:34 GMT

I am a recent Switcher from PC ==> and am undergoing more than the
expected transition pains...

I am using Office 2004 for Mac on a Powerbook running Tiger. (All
updates for both the OS and Office have been installed).

I am attempting to insert clip art from within an Office application
(such as Word or Excel). After doing Insert==>Picture==>Clipart, I
click on "Online" to get more clips from the Microsoft Clip Art site.

When I select a clip to download, and click "Open", the process appears
to proceed okay. However, no clip ever appears in the Clip Gallery (I
know downloaded clips are placed in the "Favorits" category). If I,
instead, download the file to the Desktop and then try to open it, I
get the message "Clip Gallery can only be launched by Office."

If I enter the Clip gallery itself (via Word) and click on "Import" and
then point to the clip, I get the same message.

I am using Firefox and have set up the file association for .cil files
as described in the "Help for Macintosh Users" from the Clip Art site.
(The same issue happens if I use Safari).

Any thoughts?

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Daiya Mitchell - 29 Jun 2005 16:23 GMT

I'm fairly clueless about ClipArt, but running Panther 10.3.9, I was able to
download a clip and when I doubleclicked it in the Finder, it launched the
Gallery and was loaded into Favorites. Wouldn't import or anything, though.

You can try this:
Do a get info (cmd-i) on the clipart file. Go down to Open With. Set the
open with to MS clip gallery and click change all. That should reset the
file associations for double-clicking icons.

Except, that doesn't sound like it will fix your problem. Try opening the
clip gallery first, and then double-clicking on the downloaded clip. It
strikes me as conceivable that Tiger tightened some security.

By the way, Office 2004 shipped with a truncated clipart package, to keep it
fitting on 1 CD. If you know anyone with Office X or Office 2001 (I hope
you didn't Switch without having a Mac-using friend!), you can copy their
clipart from the Value Pack on the CD (or from their installation) and
Office 2004 will use it fine.

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> I am a recent Switcher from PC ==> and am undergoing more than the
> expected transition pains...
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> Any thoughts?

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wheaty101 - 21 Apr 2006 18:36 GMT

I had the same problem and none of the advice given helped until
renamed the downloaded file, giving it a .cil extension. Then
dragged the file into the clipart gallery, and it accepted it jus
fine, placing it in the "favorites" folder by default

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Daiya Mitchell - 23 Apr 2006 17:07 GMT

Thanks very much for this new advice. I'm sure it will help lots of others.

> I had the same problem and none of the advice given helped until I
> renamed the downloaded file, giving it a .cil extension. Then I
> dragged the file into the clipart gallery, and it accepted it just
> fine, placing it in the "favorites" folder by default.

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