File location

1. From the Tools menu, click Options.
   
   
2. Select the File Locations tab.
   
   
3. Select ClipArt Pictures from the File Types list.
   
   
4. Click the Modify button.
   
   
5. Navigate to the folder you want Word to default to.
   
   
6. Click OK. OK.

1. Click on the Office logo
   
   
2. Go to Word Options>Advanced
   
   
3. Scroll down to General
   
   
4. Click the File Locations button

Labels: Customize, Graphics, Inserts, Tips

Quick graphic reinforcement

Labels: Customize, Fonts, Graphics, Tips

Drawing bar objects

Labels: Graphics, Tutorials

Thousands of items

"06/17/06 - An F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft sits at the ready as storm clouds pass overhead aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) in the Philippine Sea June 17, 2006.
(U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Aaron Burden)

All of these files are in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. However, we request you credit the photographer/videographer as indicated or simply "Department of Defense."

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Install more

A small amount of sample clip art images was included The 2007 Office systems and Office 2003 and is part of the "local collection" that is searched when you do not have Internet access to the Microsoft Office Online Clip Art and Media Web site. Office 2003 no longer included a media content CD with additional clip art. However, the Microsoft Office XP Media Content CD can still be installed locally or on a network share.

The Office XP Media Content CD contains approximately 35,000 clips that are a subset of the clips that are available on the Microsoft Office Online Clip Art and Media Web site. The Office XP Media Content CD was included with Microsoft Office XP Professional, Microsoft Office XP Standard, and Microsoft Publisher 2002 Deluxe Edition.

To install the contents of the Office XP Media Content CD on a computer, follow these steps:

1. Exit all programs that are running
   
   
2. Insert the Office XP Media Content CD into the CD drive or into the DVD drive
   (Hold down the SHIFT key to prevent the program from automatically starting. If Microsoft Windows Installer automatically starts, click Cancel)
   
   
3. Click Start, click Run, type the following command, and then click OK:
   

   msiexec.exe /i CD_drive:\CAG.MSI ADDLOCAL=ALL /qb

(CD_drive is the letter of the drive that contains the Office XP Media Content CD)

Labels: Graphics

One picture can mess up a thousand words

Labels: Formatting, Graphics, Tips

When the project seems overwhelming

"Have you ever had a document with ten, twenty, or even 100 images, and then as an afterthought decided you wanted to add a caption to each of those images? This is an easy task through the user interface (UI). All you have to do is select each image, one at a time, and choose Insert, then Reference, then Caption. Unfortunately doing this through an image-heavy document is a boring chore and takes up a lot of time.

Fortunately, the Word object model lets you to apply a caption to a selected object. An add-in that does this for you is only a small chunk of code away. The sample add-in accompanying this article demonstrates how to do this. It also demonstrates many other details about working with shapes and images in Word programmatically that are useful to know about."

Labels: Graphics, Tutorials, VBA

Remember it the way you want to

"Most communities in the fifties had small town print shops that doubled as printers of local news and advertising papers. These printers could not afford graphic artists so they used stock clipart supplied by large companies who distributed common graphics for use in advertising sections of the papers. They were provided for the printer in lots of categories to meet any advertiser's needs."

Labels: Graphics

Sprinkle carefully

• Display clip-related toolbars
  
• Customizing your clip art
  
• Cropping
  
• Sizing
  
• Adding text wrapping
  
• Blurring
  
• Rotating and flipping
  
• Adding a drop shadow

Labels: Graphics

and other graphics

" Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already quite a challenge for many. Imagine when the goal is not just too find good images, but find some that you could openly and freely use without needing to pay royalties or one-time publishing rights to someone."

Free Photographs and Other Visuals

A dozen sources are listed including:
PD Photo.org

"PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use. But if you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that standards for such use are higher. Specifically, you should assume no model release was obtained. And pictures featuring products or property should be used with care. The photos are here to be used, but I don't want you to get either of us in trouble over it."

Labels: Graphics

"Attachers"

Microsoft Office Online tutorial:
Org charts A to Z

"Use the Microsoft Office diagramming tool to create an organization chart in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Build and lay out a chart, style it effectively, and get editing tips that'll help you adapt it."

(Length: 40–50 minutes)

Also:
Draw flowcharts with Word and PowerPoint
Connector information

PPTWorkbench.com:
(Glen Millar Communications)
Connectors and custom anchor points

"Connectors are very important tools in PowerPoint drawing. They attach themselves to PowerPoint shapes, and will move with that shape as it is moved around the slide. This tutorial will show many things:
How to add custom anchor points by:

1. drawing them,
   
2. pasting them as an enhanced metafile,
   
3. using a hidden autoshape."

Labels: Graphics, Tutorials

Powerful tool

Masterviews International:

Edit Images And Photos Within PowerPoint: Picture Toolbar

"In PowerPoint you can control images using the Picture toolbar which automatically appears whenever you insert a picture in a slide. In case you do not see this toolbar, you can right-click on the image you have just inserted and choose 'Show Picture Toolbar'."

• Change the image to grayscale, black-and-white or watermark, thanks to the Color Control feature.
  
  
• Change the picture's contrast, with the More Contrast and Less Contrast controls.
  
  
• Change the picture's brightness with the More Brightness and Less Brightness controls.
  
  
• Cut off part of the picture with the Crop control.
  
  
• Recolor vector images (not applicable to bitmap images such as JPEG) with the Recolor Picture function.
  
  
• Format the picture with the Format Picture control.
  
  
• Select a color in the image and make it transparent, with the Set Transparent Color function.
  (For 2007 this is under "Recolor" > Adjust . Set Transparent color)
  
  
• Undo all operations that you have applied to the selected images with the Reset Picture control.

Labels: Graphics

Copy/Paste formatting in Word, PowerPoint or Excel

Labels: Formatting, General, Graphics

No cost

Labels: Graphics

More than I want

Try to place an AutoShape on a page and the Drawing Canvas pops up by default.

To turn off this feature, go to:
Tools>Options.
On the General tab, remove the check mark from
"Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes"

To just dismiss it each time, choose your AutoShape and then touch the Delete or Esc key before drawing the object.

Here's some more information.

Wordsite.com:
The draw layer: a metaphysical space

Knowledge Base
General Information About Floating Objects
(a discussion of Word's floating objects and layers)

As I understand it, the Drawing canvas is not really a new layer. The following illustration shows the classic layers. It is from the Knowledge base article:

How to Place Text over a Graphic

                                           ___________________
                                          /                   /
                                         /   <SURFACE OF     /
                                        /       PAPER>      /
                                       /                   /  /
                 Front drawing layer  -------------------  /
                     MAIN TEXT LAYER  =================== / /
                  Back drawing layer  -------------------/ / /
                                                          / /
                 Front drawing layer  -------------------/ /
   (Header/footer) BOTTOM TEXT LAYER  =================== /
                  Back drawing layer  -------------------/

Labels: Graphics, Tips