Clips Online

 

Since we may not have found an animated image for this slide, let’s try something else – Clips Online.  Even if you found an animated clip – try this too!

 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 Clip Art Task Pane area, you will see the image to the right.  Notice that one of the selections is Clip art on Office Online.  Move your cursor over Clips Online and click-on it.

 

 

 

 

In order to go to the Office Online area, you need to be on the Internet.  You will either need to have your modem active, or be on an active network connection.  If you are not “online” the below procedure will not work.

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

 

 

 

Normally, the above Microsoft Office Online screen appears the first time that you access this web page.  If this page appears, read the Terms Of Use, if you wish, and then click the Accept button (arrow above).

 When you click the Accept button, you will be taken to the Microsoft Office Template and Media Control Screen below.  This screen indicates that it would be wise to download this feature to enhance your work with the Clip Art selection and downloading.  When you click-on the Continue Button (arrow below), you will see a screen that indicates that this process is occurring.  Please read this screen and then click the Continue button.

 

 

It will take a few moments, but the Microsoft Office Online screen will load.  Your screen will look similar to the one below.  This image changes everyday with new Clip Art updates.

 

Look at this screen carefully as it contains “all kinds of neat information.”  On the left there other links to interesting Microsoft sites.  In the middle, you’ll see the “image of the day” and current clip art collections – they keep with the seasons.  On the right you’ll se some of the most popular clip art collections and some neat Quick Links.  We frequently “get lost” on this page as we spend so much time clicking on these links.  But for this tutorial, we’ll concentrate on clip art.

 

Look at the top right corner of the Microsoft Office Online screen.  It will look like the image to the right.  We’ll use this portion of the screen to search for some animated clip art. 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice that there are a whole lot of arrows pointing to areas in the right corner.  The top-left arrow points to a down pointing arrow, click-on this arrow.  The drop down menu screen indicates that, when we do a search, that it will find all of the images and sounds in the drop-down menu (bottom arrow).  Notice the middle top arrow points to the “white area” – we typed cartoons in this area – so that we can search for them again.  Go ahead and type anything you like to search for in this white area. We’ll stick with cartoons for now.  Then notice the green arrow in the upper right corner (far right arrow points to it).  If you move your cursor over the green arrow, the Help Text box that appears will indicate “Click to search.”  Go ahead, after you enter what you want to search for, and click the green arrow.

A menu screen similar to the one below will appear.  Notice all the arrows in the image below.  The left arrow confirms that we did a search for “all media types.”  The middle arrow confirms that is was for “cartoons.” And the right arrow indicates that there are more images to be viewed if we click the Next button.

 

 

 

Now look closely at one of your images (like the one on the left).  Notice the small square below the image.  If you desire to download this image to your computer, simply click in the little square

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you move your cursor over the right edge of the image, you will see the familiar blue area with the down-pointing triangle (see arrow at right).  If you click-on the blue area, a drop down menu will appear like the one you see to the right.  If you click-on Properties, you will see an enlarged menu screen like the one below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You could also, simply move your cursor over the image until you see the “little pointy hand” and click the left mouse button.  Both methods will cause the screen below to appear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Properties Screen above will furnish all of the details on the image. When you have finished looking at the image, click the “red X” in the upper right corner of the Properties screen (see arrow above).

 If you see any image that you desire to save on you computer, simply click-in the small box below that image.

 We clicked-in the small box below the Alarm Clock and two “things” happened immediately.  As soon as the check mark appeared, the two images below changed a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the check mark appeared below the clock, the blue bar at the top of the screen indicated Download 1 item.

On the left side of the screen the Selection Basket area – now indicates that there is one item to download.

As you select more images, these two areas will change to show the number of images you have selected.

As you move through the images, by clicking the Next button in the upper or lower right corners of the screen, you will notice that animated images “move.”  You’ll also see little speakers indicating sounds.

 

 

 

 

If you’re like us, we’ve clicked through about ten to fifteen screens, and we don’t see any of the image moving – indicating animation.  So, let’s take care of this by “refining” our search.

 

We’ll continue to search for cartoons, but only “look” for animated clip art.  To do this we’ll need to go back to the Search area at the upper right corner of the Microsoft Office Online Clip Art Screen.  Click-on the down pointing arrow (see top arrow on the image to the right).  The Media Types drop down menu will appear.  Move your cursor over Animations and click-on Animations.  Now click-on the green arrow again  to start a new clip art search.  You should now only see animated clip art.  Every clip art image should be moving!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As indicated above, click-in the small squares below any image that you would like to download.  Click the Next arrows to see more clip art.  As you click, the number of downloads

 We found a “dancing pig” and “smiling sun” that we liked.  You’ll see that we put check marks below these two images so that we can download them.

 You search until you find some Clip Art images you like.  Check any of the boxes below the images you select. 

 We’ll now download the images you selected to your computer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you look at the top of your Microsoft Office Online Clip Art screen you will see the number of Clip Art images that you selected to download.  

 

 

 

 

You will also see the same information on the left side of your screen. 

To download the images, move your cursor over either of the Download 2 items (or however many items you chose) and click the left mouse button (see arrows above and to the right).

A Download screen similar to the one below will appear.  We chose two images, so our screen indicates “2.”  Your screen will indicate the number of images you selected for downloading to your computer.

 When you see this screen, follow the instructions in the box on the image below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you have read over this screen, click the Download Now button.

 

 

The Download instructions in the box on the last page indicated that you should click the Open button if prompted.

So, if the screen below appears, click the Open button

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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:  Collection list.  This is important – you’ll see why in a few minutes.

Notice that Downloaded Clips has been “expanded” to show all of the little yellow folders below it.

Next, you see the images that you downloaded on the right side of your screen.  Since these are animated images, notice the “yellow star” in the lower right corner of the images.  This indicates that the image is animated.  This is not shown here, but we’ll look at the right side in a moment.

Notice that the Fantasy folder is highlighted in gray – on our screen. This is very hard to see, so look carefully.  Another folder, under Downloaded Clips may be highlighted on your screen.  It depends on the clips you download.  This is very important as this is where your downloaded images are located. Notice there are a lot of folders that can “hold” clips in the Collection List. 

Sometimes, if you’ve forgotten where a clip was downloaded, you’ll need to double-click quickly on several of the Downloaded Clips folders to find the clip you want.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 arrow. 

In the drop down menu that appears, select Copy.

This will place the image on your Clip Board.  You are now ready to paste the image into your slide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the upper right corner of your Microsoft Clip Organizer screen you will notice three small boxes.  The one on the left has a “dash,” the one in the middle a “little square,” and the one on the right a “X.”  These buttons allow you to make your Clip Organizer screen bigger (the square in the middle), close this screen so it “goes away” (the “X”).   We’ll click on the dash (see arrow on right). You’ll notice that the screen seems “to disappear” into the blue bar at the bottom of the screen.  This Blue bar is called the Task Bar.  If you need to use the Microsoft Clip Organizer again, simply click on it - in the Blue Bar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You should now see your slide again.   Click the RIGHT mouse button.  When the drop down menu appears, click-on Paste.  You will now see your animated image in the center of your slide.

 

 

 

 

We’ll move the image to the lower right corner of our slide.  Move your cursor over your image and you will see the cursor change to a four-headed arrow (see image on left and above).

 

 

 

 

When you see the four-headed arrow, click and hold down the left mouse button, and move your image to the lower right corner of your slide.

If you desire to make the image larger or smaller, move your cursor over one of the little circles on one of the corners.  You’ll see your cursor change to a two-headed arrow.  When you see the two-headed arrow, click and hold down the left mouse button and move your two-headed arrow to make the image larger or smaller.

 

 

 

 

 

If you “grab” the circles in the middle of the top, bottom, left or right sides of the image, and move them, you will either make your image “skinny” or “fat.”  So, most of the time, it’s best to use the corner circles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you don’t want to go through the Clips Online downloading clips process, 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 Clip Art Task Pane on the right side of your screen and click-on Organize clips…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Notice, when you click on the “+” to the left of Web Collections, a folder named Microsoft Office Online now appears below Web Collections (like the image below).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click-on the small plus sign “+” to the left of Microsoft Office Online.

 

The Collection List Task Pane for the entire Microsoft Office Online

will now appear.  

 

 

We clicked on Animals (see image and arrow below).  The Clip Art images to the right of animals appeared.  You can insert these images just like you did on page 27.  In essence, you are “live-on-line” in the Microsoft Office Online.  Some folks find this method easier to use when downloading a specific clip – than the one we just showed you.  You choose the one you like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After you have clicked-on Copy, close the Microsoft Clip Organizer by clicking on the small “X” in the upper right corner of the Clip Organizer screen.

 You may see a Microsoft Clip Organizer information screen appear (like the one below) which asks if you desire to retain images on your Clipboard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer “Yes” if this screen appears.

 You should now be back in the last slide we worked on – Slide 6.

 

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