What happened to all the clip art?

I can find NO clipart online through the link in Word 2007. I am vexed at it disappearing. The link from the program takes me to a page that wants to sell me newer versions. I paid for Office 2007, and it serves me well. Office 2010 was NOT an improvement

• I use it at work and think it's worse than 2007. A squeeze play by Microsoft to take away the features will NOT get me to the next version. The least they could do is put a notice up to cop to the fact that they took out the clipart access for general online use except though the newer programs - or so it seems. The links when I search are circular and never do turn up the ClipArt Gallery. So, either Microsoft is too inept to make things that 2007 users can locate and use, or it's a deliberate squeeze. I am very annoyed.

Searching with Bing may be "more satisfactory" -- if the proprietary property rights of photographers, artists, and illustrators are not a great concern.

I echo what others have said.  Hundreds of professional clip art images that I relied heavily on are now no longer available.  I find it quite frustrating that MS's answer is "just go do a search for Clip Art on Bing".  I'm not so much bothered by MS driving customers to an ad-supported MS site.  If that's what they need to do to stay profitable in the competitive productivity software space, so be it.  What I find troubling is the impression it leaves that somehow the clip art that MS provides is equivalent to going and doing a search on the web.

As an Ethics instructor at a local college, I have always taken great care to make sure I use images in my class presentations that are not restricted copyrighted material.  I even went to the trouble of checking in the MS license to make sure that clip art could be used in an educational setting.

I always felt the MS clip art galleries was one of the ways MS added value to its tools.  It set them apart from much cheaper (read free!) productivity tools out there.  The clip art galleries were a great way to maximize the effectiveness of PowerPoint.  In fact, I first discovered them many years ago through Cliff Atkinson's "Beyond Bullet Points" -- a great Microsoft Press book on how to maximize your use of PowerPoint!

Sadly, I do not have time to search on Bing and confirm the licensing agreement of every single image I may or may not want to use.  I'm now stuck either providing a far less media-rich educational experience for my students or paying out of pocket for an image service.

I'm not sure why I'm paying for the MS Office suite any more.

I had a link on our website for customers to get access to free generic clipart and it quit working and after hours of searching I found a way to update our website and also email you a link......hope you find it helpful.  Please feel free to go through our site anytime to access the clipart site.

http://amsigns.net/clipart.html

If I look at that site, it gives instructions for accessing clip art in Office 365/2013. Bing is one of the options, but Office.com clip art is another. In previous versions, Insert | Picture | Clip Art or Insert | Illustrations | Clip Art still works the same way it always did, opening a task pane to search for the images. Yes, most of them are online, and the variety may vary, but they're still there. Searching with Bing or Google Images is often more satisfactory, anyway.