Another “Golly Gee” feature in Microsoft PowerPoint XP – Clips Online!

Since we did not find an animated image for this slide, let’s try something else – Clips Online.

You can go online from the Insert ClipArt Menu Screen and get even more clip art.  Not only is everything in the ClipArt Gallery available – but even more! 

 

If you look at the bottom right of your screen in the Insert Clip Art area you will see the image to the right.  Notice that one of the selections is Clips Online.  Move your cursor over Clips Online and click-on it.

You may see an information screen similar to the one below, or you may go directly to the Clips Online Microsoft web page.

 If you do see the above screen it is simply reminding you that you need to be on the Internet.  When you click-on OK the browser you are using will go to the Microsoft Clips Online web page.

It will take a few moments, but the Clips Online screen below will load.

 

Notice that one of the arrows in the image at the right points to Search.  To search for cartoons that are animated/in motion, we filled in the Search for: and Search in: boxes as indicated in the image on the right.  To do this we clicked-on the small down triangles and selected the choices you see.

 

 

 

We then clicked-on Go.  We received seven pages – 7 ! - of animated cartoon images – they all move!  The top of the Design Gallery web page should look something like the one below.  You can view each page by clicking on the >> at the top right of the page.

Notice the small “boxes” below each image.  If you see an image, as you move through the pages, that you would like to save for your “image collection,” click-in the small box and a check mark will appear. 

We chose a “small beaming sun” on one of the other pages for our selection.  When we clicked-in the little box our screen looked like the image at the right.  When we clicked-in the box the check mark appeared and it indicated Download 1 Clip at the top of the screen. 

If you select (click) several images, you will see the Download Clip increase as you click-on each box.

When you have selected all of the clips that you desire, click-on the Download Clips link.

 

 

Your monitor screen should now be similar to the one on the left.  It indicates how many clips you selected, how much disk space they require, and how long it will take to download them over a modem.

 

Click-on Download Now!

When the download is complete, a screen similar to the one on the right will appear.  There are several things to notice here.

First, look at the top of the screen it indicates:  Weather-Microsoft Clip Organizer.  This is important – you’ll see why in a few minutes.

Next, you see the images that you downloaded.  Since these are animated images, notice the “yellow star” in the lower right corner of the images.  This indicates that the image is animated.

Last, notice that the Weather folder is highlighted in gray.  This indicates that this downloaded image will be placed in the Weather folder under Downloaded Clips. 

When you are ready to insert a clip in your presentation, move your cursor over the right side of the animated image you wish to insert and click-on the small down triangle. 

 

Then, in the drop down menu that appears, select Copy.

One more “thing” about Clips Online

If you don’t want to go to Clips Online and go through the “hassle” of downloading clips you can use the procedure below.  This procedure “connects” to Clips Online through the Collection List.

Make sure that you are “on-line” and logged in through your modem on network cable.

Move to the bottom of the Insert Clip Art Task Pane on the right side of your screen and click-on Clip Organizer.

 

 The Collection List at the left will appear on the left side of the Microsoft Clip Organizer Menu Screen.  Use the elevator bar on the right side of the Collection List to move down to the bottom of the Collection List area.

 

At the bottom of the Collection List area you will see a Web Collections Folder.  Click-on the little plus sign ( + ) to the left of the Web Collections folder.

 When you click, the Collection List folder will “open” and the collection list will look like the left side of the image below. 

 

 

Notice below the Web Collections that a folder named Design Gallery Live now appears.  And, under this folder, you see a number of selections (Academic, Animals, etc.). 

 

We clicked on Animals in the image above and the Clip Art images on the right appeared.  You can insert these images just like you did on page 22.  In essence, you are “live” in the Clip Gallery since you are online.  Some find this easier to use that downloading a specific clip.  You choose the one you like best.