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Jan 06, 2012 Download free Clipart Images from Microsoft Office website. Free Download free Clipart Images from Microsoft Office website is categorized under Categories. Clipart Download Free Image Images Microsoft Clip Art Presentations. Previous Post. Installing Microsoft Office Language Pack 2010 English. Having free clip art is a big deal for those of us on fixed budgets and with limited access to stock images and clip art to use in our elearning courses, presentations, and training programs. So last week’s news that Microsoft is bringing back free clip art was a breath of fresh, kind of. About two years ago, Microsoft got rid of clip art. Microsoft Windows Clip Art FreeBecause of this many of you have been using the, the, and which you can. This works fine, but it sure is handy having quicker access to the right images while you’re building the slide. Free Clip Art via Pickit The good news is which offers a pretty big library of images. However, while Pickit offers some free images that you can access via PowerPoint, it doesn’t really work the same way it used to with the old clip art gallery. Below, I’ll show how to install it and then a few tips on using it for your courses. To get started, I recommend creating an account with. How to Install Pickit for Free Clip Art This part was a little tricky because the instructions aren’t quite that clear. • You’ll need to • Click the green “add” button. Microsoft Office Clip Art Free ImagesThis should install Pickit. However, this is where I found the instructions to be a bit confusing. Here are the instructions that Microsoft provides: • Make sure you’re signed in to Office. Open any Office application and, in the top right corner, click Sign in. Type the email address and password you use with Office. • If you’re using Word, Excel or PowerPoint, press Insert > My Add-ins. In the Add-ins for Office box, find your add-in. • If you don’t see it, verify that you’re signed into Office. Press Refresh to update the list. • If the add-in still doesn’t show up in the add-ins for Office list, it might have been hidden. You can use the My Add-ins for Office and SharePoint page to. • Double-click the add-in to start it. Those instructions didn’t work for me. First off, my version of PowerPoint 2013 doesn’t have an Insert>My Add-ins option. Instead it’s Insert>My Apps. However, I don’t see the Pickit app in the list. Here’s how to install the Pickit app if you have the same issue as I do. • Make sure you’re signed into your Office account because the app is part of your account. • Go to Insert>My Apps and click on the See All link. That will show all of your apps. • Select the Pickit app and click on Insert. This will install the app. Here’s a video that shows. How to Use Pickit for Free Clip Art & Stock Images I’m using PowerPoint 2013 so I’m not sure if the app works different for newer versions. Here are a few key features and considerations when using Pickit: • The app opens a side panel where you can search for images. In the image above, I searched for “meeting.” The search produced three options: 1) free images, 2) pay per photo, and 3) request an image. Pay images are provided by Shutterstock at about $5/image. I’m not sure how it works if you already have a Shutterstock account, though. • You can upload images and manage them (and purchased images) via the “your images” tab. • The “request a photo” feature is pretty cool and allows you to ask someone to create or share an image you require. • Based on their, Pickit is supposed to add an icon to your toolbar. This didn’t happen for me. Microsoft Office Clip Art Pack DownloadYou’re also supposed to be able to select a word on the slide, right click, and search for an image. However, that wasn’t working for me, either. I’m not sure why, but I was too lazy to research it. If someone figures it out, add a note in the comments. My impressions: • It’s free and the available images are viable (although, it’s not really like the clip art Microsoft offered before). Microsoft Office Clip Art Mac• It does help people not bootleg images from Google that may cause copyright issues something that Bing kind of made a bit fuzzy when they dropped the free clip art. • You can’t sort illustrated from photographic images. Also, the illustrations come in as.JPG which means they can’t be ungrouped like the earlier clip art. To edit them in PowerPoint you are limited but can.
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