Office 2003 Clip Art

David Lovell

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Apr 21, 2004, 7:37:08 AM4/21/04

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Hi.

I work in a school, and we have 30 machines, all
installed with office 2003 on windows xp.

When the children (and anyone else for that matter) tries
to access the clipart, it takes forever to load the
clipart, and if any of you have children/work with them,
you'll know how impatient they can be! So this causes a
problem with them trying to find pictures to put in their
documents.

Now if I remove the "search on web collections", it loads
up much faster, but gives 1 (if I'm lucky) result.
However, this is a problem to do, as all users have their
own accounts on the network, so would be unable to set
their account to have this set to default (as far as I
can see at least, if I'm wrong, someone please correct
me!)

Anyway, the ideal solution would be to install all the
clipart on the server (or the local machines) and for the
searches to search either of these locations rather than
the internet!

Is there anyway to do this, or at least to speed up the
process of it searcing on the internet? As we have a
2mbit connection, so I can't see it being the connection
from our end being the problem!

Thanks in advance

David Lovell

Cerridwen

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Apr 21, 2004, 7:43:53 AM4/21/04

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To the best of my knowledge there is no way of speeding up the download
time - it's governed by MS server, not your connection and that, at times,
can be glacial; and I don't think there is any way of downloading the lot to
a local (for local read server) drive, either.

anon...@discussions.microsoft.com

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Apr 21, 2004, 9:47:52 AM4/21/04

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>To the best of my knowledge there is no way of speeding
up the download
>time - it's governed by MS server, not your connection
and that, at times,
>can be glacial; and I don't think there is any way of
downloading the lot to
>a local (for local read server) drive, either.

Yup, that's what I feared!

Hopefully MS will read this and decide that it was a
stupid idea not to include the collections on a CD or
make them available for download.

So hopefully if anyone reads this, make an executabe
download available please :)

Or someone else might know of a way to get round
this??? :)

Paul Ballou

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Apr 21, 2004, 6:28:23 PM4/21/04

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MS is working on Speeding up the site.

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Paul Ballou
MVP Office
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http://office.microsoft.com/templates
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Control the things you can and Don't Worry about the things you can't
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David Lovell

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Apr 22, 2004, 5:13:17 AM4/22/04

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>-----Original Message-----
>MS is working on Speeding up the site.

Cheers

Just hope it doesn't take too long as I dunno how much of
their whining and moaning I can take! lol

Paul Ballou

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Apr 22, 2004, 6:02:19 AM4/22/04

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I believe a site update is planned possibly for the summer.

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Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/templates
http://office.microsoft.com/home

Control the things you can and Don't Worry about the things you can't
control.

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