Hi Lucy,
Office 2007 uses a new 'Office Art' graphics engine (aka Escher2) which has some different rules and features
There are a couple of variations, some dependent on where the clipart in your Clip Organizer came from
See if this works.
1. In Word 2007 select Insert=>Clipart
2. Search for 'pie' (all collections all media types)
3. Select a WMF file and insert it in the drawing
(I usedj0233497.wmf among others)
4. Resize your graphic to what you want.
5. Right click the inserted graphic and set Text Wrapping to Inline with text
(you can change it later, but this should allow step 6
to be active).
6. Right click on the inserted graphic and choose 'Edit Picture'. This basically puts a drawing canvas around the graphic.
7. Right click again and select grouping.
Notes:
(7a) If 'ungroup' is greyed out but 'regroup' is live then the 'pieces' may have already separated in Step 5, even though selection
handles may not be visible on the individual pieces/segments until you click on one of those segments.
(7b)If you select a segment and get the grey circled corner handles on the segment, then right click and ungroup should blow
things apart into the rest of the separate parts, as in prior versions
If you Insert=>Clipart on the ribbon to add the graphic there is, also on the ribbon, a grouping icon on the 'Page Layout Tab' you
can use for grouping
multiple objects (so to start it's greyed out). When you insert the clipart the Ribbon's
Picture Tools=>Format tab 'grouping' choice
in 'Arrange' will be greyed out until you right click=>Edit on the WMF. The Ribbon context then changes from 'Picture tools' (what
you inserted) to 'Drawing tools' (the shapes you're now working with) and you can use the Ribbon's Shape Styles, Shadow effects,
Fill, etc from that
Drawing Tools=>Format
on the individual segments.
You can also start with a Drawing Canvas, using
Insert=>Shape=>New Drawing Canvas
and then insert the WMF file in the canvas from the ClipArt pane.
You can also choose to work in Powerpoint 2007 if available. In PowerPoint, since each slide is in effect a drawing canvas, if you
right
click after inserting clipart and then on the right click menu use
[Right click]Grouping=>Ungroup
the 'convert to drawing object' choice will let you ungroup WMF/EMF items.
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I am working in Word 2007 and am having fits with breaking apart clipart and
using pieces of it. I have read quite a few of the q&a's and have gotten
suggestions - but nothing seems consistent. Starting in a new document, can
someone please walk me through the process of inserting a wmf clipart, edit
picture, ungroup, move/delete/color images/regroup, etc. It seems you have
to be very particular about the image wrapping and the drawing canvas as to
whether edit picture and ungroup are available options. Also, what should my
default options be for inserting a clipart - inline or square? Please
help!!!!--
Lucy
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