What happened to all the clip art?

Anonymous
2010-07-30T17:34:36+00:00

Office used to have a great selection of clip art.  I relied on it for teaching and it seems the offerings have seriously shrunk.  I used a series with the keyword 'teen' for my students worksheets and now they are no longer in the menu!  In fact, nothing comes up at all with this keyword anymore.  What's up!?!

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triptotokyo-5840 36,701 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2010-07-30T17:57:53+00:00

If I type teen in WORD I get loads back.

Try the following (I am working in WORD):-

Insert tab / Illustrations group / click on Clip Art and the Clip Art Task Pane should launch on the right hand side.

In the Search for: box type:-

teen

Make sure that Search in: is set to:-

All collections

Make sure that Results should be: is set to:-

All media file types

Hit Go

Now you should get plenty of Clip Art back.

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  1. Stefan Blom 352.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-01-23T23:08:26+00:00

    Yes, ClipArt is no longer supported, as you have noticed. Even Insert | Online Pictures only offers a Bing search, and you might as well perform an ordinary search using your favorite search engine.

    I'm no lawyer, either, but the reference to ClipArt in the EULA could be there to cover for older versions, where ClipArt is/was supported...

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  2. Charles Kenyon 170.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-01-23T23:43:55+00:00

    Yes, ClipArt is no longer supported, as you have noticed. Even Insert | Online Pictures only offers a Bing search, and you might as well perform an ordinary search using your favorite search engine.

    I'm no lawyer, either, but the reference to ClipArt in the EULA could be there to cover for older versions, where ClipArt is/was supported... 

    I just checked in Word 2003 and trying to search clipart caused a Word crash. This may just be from running Word 2003 on Win 8.1 but I have not had other problems. The crash happened if I typed in a term and clicked on "Go." Some images start to appear in the task pane and it crashes.

    While the loss of clipart is not a major problem for me, it is too bad. It was convenient.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-14T14:15:07+00:00

    Microsoft took away clip-art and they replaced it with something beyond useless.  The "Bing" results I get in word and powerpoint are often nothing relating to the search term, and the images are nothing I'd ever use.  At least before I could use "clip-art" sparingly.  This seems like a breach of contract to me.

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  4. Stefan Blom 352.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-04-15T08:29:16+00:00

    If you include clipart in the search string, you'll get more matches that resemble "traditional" Office clipart (which may or may not help).

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