Clipart Organizer fouling up

[Paul]

I have been trying to open up my clipart organizer to use clipart for a Word
document. When I try to do this within Word, nothing happens (except Word
freezes up). In the Word menu, I go to Insert/Picture/Clipart but Word
freezes. When I try to open up the CLipart Organizer on its own (from teh
Programs menu), the clipart organizer window will pop up, but I am unable to
see or copy any clipart. Is there an equivalent to deleting a profile in
Word or Office? Or do I just have to reinstall? I rebooted Windows, cleaned
out temp files but am still having the same problems.
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Paul

MS Office Pro 2003
XP Home
Dell Inspiron 1501

 

[Mary Sauer]

Did you compact the Organizer? Open the Organizer from Start, Microsoft Office
Tools, when the Organizer opens, tools, compact.

Could be the Organizer is damaged. You can create a new Mstore10.mgc file. The
file is found in a folder similar to this (hidden)
C:\\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Clip Organizer
or in Vista
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Clip Organizer
Change the Mstore10.mgc to Mstore10.old. You will lose any custom keywords. The
Organizer will create a new catalog next time it is opened.

 

[Paul]

Thanks, Mary. I've tried that and evn though I've closed out any Office
program, I keep getting an error message saying that it is in use by another
program--checking the processes in the task manager turned up nothing
suspicious (like winword or anything like that). I'll try this on my next
reboot and see if I don't have better results.
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Paul

MS Office Pro 2003
Vista Home Basic
Dell Inspiron 1501

 

[Paul]

Thanks again, Mary. It worked. I now have my clipart organizer back,
although I believe that it deleted all the downloaded clipart from the MS
Site (one of the lesser-known advantages of using MS Office--a huge
collection of free clipart). But as it was, I couldn't access them anyways,
so there you go (I do have a backup of them somewhere)... but thanks again.
--
Paul

MS Office Pro 2003
Vista Home Basic
Dell Inspiron 1501

 

[Mary Sauer]

I'm glad you have the Organizer back. The downloaded clips are in *My
Documents*, *My Pictures*, point the Organizer to the folder. File, Add clips,
on my own.