Moving Personal Clipart Folder

[aaronosb]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

I Have MS OFFICE 2008 on a MAC G5 Power PC and want to move my Personal Clp Art Folder in MS Word to
my Laptop with an Intel Processor running OFFICE 2008 as well. The folder moves just fine, but when I open up MS Word and attempt to insert some clip art, none of the personal clip art shows up nor the new categories. So how do I do this without having to import each piece of clip art individually and create new categories all over again?
Thanks for any help!

 

[John McGhie]

Oh, hell... I've forgotten... You rename the Clip Art Clip Package database
file, I think. Then Office will rebuild the index on the destination
machine...

I think all Office applications must be quit before you rename the database.

Office should rebuild the database when you next open one of the
applications.

If it doesn't work, rename it back...

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

I Have MS OFFICE 2008 on a MAC G5 Power PC and want to move my Personal Clp
Art Folder in MS Word to
my Laptop with an Intel Processor running OFFICE 2008 as well. The folder
moves just fine, but when I open up MS Word and attempt to insert some clip
art, none of the personal clip art shows up nor the new categories. So how do
I do this without having to import each piece of clip art individually and
create new categories all over again?
Thanks for any help!

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[aaronosb]

Oh, hell... I've forgotten... You rename the Clip Art Clip Package database

file, I think. Then Office will rebuild the index on the destination
machine...

I think all Office applications must be quit before you rename the database.

Office should rebuild the database when you next open one of the
applications.

If it doesn't work, rename it back...

Hope this helps



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Thanks, but that didn't work. I even copied the whole clipart folder and that didn't work either.
In Office 2004 (Word) and prior versions it was easy to transfer these things. With Office 2008 it is not!
In any case, I thanks you, Mr. McGhie for your response!

 

[CyberTaz]

Where are you copying the Clip Art to? Clip Art in Office 2008 is stored in
a different location than in prior versions.

Have you tried opening the original folder, selecting the images themselves
then pasting into 2008's Personal folder? That appears to work here.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[aaronosb]

Where are you copying the Clip Art to? Clip Art in Office 2008 is stored in

a different location than in prior versions.

Have you tried opening the original folder, selecting the images themselves
then pasting into 2008's Personal folder? That appears to work here.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones

I've copied the whole clip art folder located in the Media Folder under Office and moved it from one computer to the same place on my lap top. Then launched Word and attempted to insert a specific clip art into a document on the lap top without any luck. Nothing had changed.
The personal clip art folder in MS Office on both computers are the same.

 

[John McGhie]

No, you can't copy the WHOLE folder

The folder contains image files and a database. If you copy the database,
it won't work. You have to put new files in there with all Office
applications closed.

When you next launch the Clip Gallery, it should then rebuild the database
to add the new images.

Cheers

I've copied the whole clip art folder located in the Media Folder under Office
and moved it from one computer to the same place on my lap top. Then launched
Word and attempted to insert a specific clip art into a document on the lap
top without any luck. Nothing had changed.
The personal clip art folder in MS Office on both computers are the same.

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Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]