About the Clip Organizer

The Microsoft Clip Organizer contains drawings, photographs, sounds, videos, and other media files — called clips— that you can insert and use in presentations, publications, and other Microsoft Office documents.

In an Office program, you can find, add, and organize media clips by using:

Insert Clip Art   This command opens a task pane where you can search for clips. Although this task pane resembles the Office Basic Search task pane, you use it to find media clips, not documents. You can search for media files based on descriptive keywords, file name, file format, and clip collections.

Microsoft Clip Organizer   This link can be found at the bottom of the Insert Clip Art task pane and opens the main Clip Organizer window. You can use Clip Organizer to browse through clip collections, add clips, or catalog clips in ways that make sense to you. For example, you can create a collection to group the clips you use most frequently, or let Clip Organizer automatically add and catalog media files on your hard disk.

Clips on the Web   If you have an Internet connection open, clip art search results will automatically include content from our Web site. Or, you can visit the site yourself by clicking the link at the bottom of the task pane.

Microsoft Office Tools on the Web   If you have an Internet connection, you can use the Office on the Web tools to purchase a variety of clip-related options.