Making sure your cursor is in the place where you want your picture to be, click on Online Pictures: You access clip art from the same menu, on the Insert tab, in the Illustrations area, but it’s now called Online Pictures: Note that these instructions work for both the standalone version of Word 2013 (and other software) if you bought it once, and the subscription version through Office 365 which downloads updates periodically. How do I use clip art in Word 2013 and other Microsoft Office software?įor Office 2013, Microsoft went all online-based, and as a result, the way in which you access clip art changed. It can also be moved, if you hover inside the box until an arrow appears.įor more on placing images in text, please see this article. You will also notice here that the image is selected and can be enlarged and reduced using the little blocks around the image outline. When you’ve found an image you want to insert, double-click on it and it will move into your document: Very annoying!Īnyway, back to our 57 teapots (which is surely enough for anyone!). I believe that if you have a standalone version of Word that doesn’t receive updates, the clip art will stay, otherwise you’ll just now have an option to search Bing. Stop press – you might only find you have the option to search online now – as Microsoft have withdrawn the copyright-free clip art they had offered for so many years. You should then see a grid of clip art images: Leaving this on all media, let’s search for “teapot” – pop the word in the search box and click the Go button: It’s pretty simple: you can enter a search term, and you can also choose which kind of media you are searching for (useful for PowerPoint presentations, for example, or if you only want photographs to illustrate your document): Making sure that your cursor is at the point where you want the clip art image to appear, click the Clip Art button:Ī clip art search area will appear in the right-hand margin. Of course, choosing and inserting your clip art varies between Word (Excel and PowerPoint) 2007/2010 and Word (Excel and PowerPoint) 2013, so if you want the latter, please scroll down a bit to the relevant heading! How do I use clip art in Word 2007 and Word 2010 and other Microsoft Office software?Ĭlip art is found in the Insert tab, in the Illustrations area (this is an image from Word 2010 the button in Word 2007 has a slightly different, but recognisable, icon and is in the same place): Examples are taken from Word, but the process works in the same way in all applications. Select Insert > Shapes and select SmartArt, Picture, Clip Art, Chart or Screenshot.This article applies to Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
If you want to enhance your Word document, you can add a drawing instead of using basic lines and shapes, or freeform shapes. If you want to delete a line, select the Stroke eraser and click on the line to erase it. To erase a small or large area, click, hold and drag your mouse over the area you want to delete.
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