Adding Groups of Pictures to Clip Art Gallery
Johnette
other program) click the button called Clips Online, that
will route you directly to the MS clip art page.
Thanks
>-----Original Message-----
>I've been looking for the path that Office stores clipart
>pictures in and can't find it. I'm trying to add several
>pictures at once to the clip Gallery. Any suggestions?
>Thanks
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Mary Sauer
This is a response from Bob Buckland, MS Office Products MVP, to a similar
query.
MS Office Clip Gallery is basically designed
to support MS's clipart. 3rd party packages,
such as Thumbsplus (http://cerious.com) are
aimed at a wider market, including importing
and manipulating 3rd party content.
In MS Office XP MS Clip Organizer has a tree
structured collections set and you can drag and
drop the entire folder tree from Windows Explorer
into Clip Organizer 2002. Since you can name the
folders (collections) anything you want it may not
be as critical to keyword everything. You can
get an idea of its structure and use here:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/ClipOrganizerMediaClips
.aspx
For MS Clip Gallery v5 (Office 2000)
[usage tips shown here
http://microsoft.com/insider/articles/impgal.htm ]
you can do something similar and it goes relatively
quickly considering that you're dealing with adding records
to a database (the catalog) and each entry has a
generated thumbnail and the ability to add keywords
and the relative slow speed of a CD ROM drive, plus
clip gallery won't let you drag and drop a folder icon :(
I'm assuming that there is something common to each
of the subfolders on the CD you want to import,.
i.e.it's organized by category, such as
Animals, Vegetables, Minerals
or by media type
clipart, shapes, maps, etc.
From Start=>Programs=>Microsoft Office Tools
run MS Clip Gallery then open Windows Explorer
and browse to your CD. Make the Explorer Window
and the Clip Gallery each less than full screen in
viewing size.
In the Clip Gallery, create a category for each
folder on the CD named for the content groups like
the ones mentioned above, then click on one of the
categories to open the new, empty category.
In Windows explorer open the matching folder on
the CD, use Ctrl+A to select All then drag the
selected items to the Clip Organizer to import them.
When they're in, the keyword box will popup, check
the box that says [x] Mark all clips with the same
properties then enter the list of categories and
keywords you'd like to end up with (a single
thumbnail can exist in multiple categories).
Do this for each folder on the CD into a category
and include a category and keyword to match the name
of the CD/Product that the CD belongs to so you'll
be able to ID the CD later when prompted for it
and also be able to remove the whole CDs content if
you need to at some point, such as a drive letter change).
When you're done, if you've added categories
that don't match the folder names, and want to
delete the folder name categories your thumbnails
won't be deleted, just the 'extra' category placeholder.
It takes me about 5 or 6 minutes to process a folder
of 2,500 graphics, including categorizing and keywording.
Most of the time is from waiting for the CD content
to be processed by Clip Gallery (thumbnails and adding
keywords and categories).
Unfortunately this will also put a copy of each
clip onto your hard drive. To have it remain on
the CD you use a similar process except that instead
of dragging and dropping use Import Clips and set
the (o) Let Clip Gallery find this clip in it's current
folder or volume, but Ctrl+A to select all and
the categorizing still works.
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Mary Sauer Microsoft MVP
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