Launch an application from PP toolbar

[Dario de Judicibus]

At last I was able to reinstall Clipart Gallery from my old Office 2000 CD's
to use it in Office XP to complement Clip Organizer. Now I wish to add a
button in PowerPoint XP to launch Clipart Gallery or in alternative to
customize the Clipart Side Panel to add

Clipart Gallery...

link below

Clip Organizer...

link. Any idea how to do it? Thank you in advance.

DdJ

 

[Michael Koerner]

Right click on your tool bar and select Customize. Either select the Drawing
Tool Bar as one of your tool bars, or under the Commands Tab, with Drawing
selected, scroll down until you find the clip art icon (head) drag this to your
existing tool bar. then close the customization window. When you click on this
icon, it will find all your clip art files for you.

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At last I was able to reinstall Clipart Gallery from my old Office 2000 CD's
to use it in Office XP to complement Clip Organizer. Now I wish to add a
button in PowerPoint XP to launch Clipart Gallery or in alternative to
customize the Clipart Side Panel to add

Clipart Gallery...

link below

Clip Organizer...

link. Any idea how to do it? Thank you in advance.

DdJ

 

[Dario de Judicibus]

Right click on your tool bar and select Customize. Either select the Drawing
Tool Bar as one of your tool bars, or under the Commands Tab, with Drawing
selected, scroll down until you find the clip art icon (head) drag this to your
existing tool bar. then close the customization window. When you click on this
icon, it will find all your clip art files for you.

Michael, I do NOT understand. What you said allows to add the Clip Organizer
icon to a toolbar. That's trivial. It has no relation with my question. I
asked how to add another button that I can customize to launch the Clipart
Gallery too. Clip Organizer is the Office XP tool to see cliparts. It is NOT
able to manage Office 2000 cliparts by importing BOTH clipart and search
keywords. So I installed Clipart Gallery from my old Office 2000 diskettes
to manage my legacy cliparts.

So I have now BOTH Clip Organizer and Clipart Gallery. I need to know how to
create a button to launch the latter, not the former.

DdJ

 

[Dario de Judicibus]

Right click on your tool bar and select Customize. Either select the Drawing
Tool Bar as one of your tool bars, or under the Commands Tab, with Drawing
selected, scroll down until you find the clip art icon (head) drag this to your
existing tool bar. then close the customization window. When you click on this
icon, it will find all your clip art files for you.

As an alternative I need to know how to customize the Clipart Side Panel to
add

Clipart Gallery...

link below

Clip Organizer...

link. That is:

See Also:
----------------------
Clip Otganizer...
Clipart Gallery...
Clips Online...
Tips for Finding Clips...



DdJ

 

[Michael Koerner]

Whoops! mis read your original post. sorry about that. I see what your trying to
do (not that I know how to do it). But, are you not duplicating what is in the
Clip Organizer. ISTR that once you run The insert Clip art wizard all the clip
art you select and have on your computer becomes part of the clip organizer. I
don't know, as I rarely use the clip art

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]

Right click on your tool bar and select Customize. Either select the Drawing
Tool Bar as one of your tool bars, or under the Commands Tab, with Drawing
selected, scroll down until you find the clip art icon (head) drag this to your
existing tool bar. then close the customization window. When you click on this
icon, it will find all your clip art files for you.

As an alternative I need to know how to customize the Clipart Side Panel to
add

Clipart Gallery...

link below

Clip Organizer...

link. That is:

See Also:
----------------------
Clip Otganizer...
Clipart Gallery...
Clips Online...
Tips for Finding Clips...



DdJ

 

[Echo S]

Hi, Dario.

I posted to your previous thread, don't know if you saw it or not, so here's
the info I found.

Sorry this has taken me so long, Dario, but I do have good news (of sorts).

There's a tool in the works to help transfer Clip Gallery clips to Clip
Organizer so that the keywords remain intact. I'll put a notice in the
newsgroup when it's available for download (hopefully in a few weeks).

As for the immediate question, I was able to add a button to open Clip
Gallery from PPT 2002 (aka XP) by doing the following:

Tools/Customize
Go to the Commands tab, and select Insert on the left
Drag the ClipArt button to a toolbar
Right-click the clip art button and select Assign Hyperlink/Open...
In the Address box, type the path to your CAG.EXE file. Mine is, for
instance, C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Artgalry\CAG.EXE
Click OK and Close. (First modify the button itself from that right-click
menu if you want)

It's not perfect, because you'll get a "opening files can be dangerous, do
you really want to do this?" dialog when you click the icon, but otherwise,
it seems to work well.

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Yes, and no. Yes, the clips themselves can be imported, but the older ones
come in without any keywords. Not as useful - can't search for them unless
you add the keywords by hand.

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Whoops! mis read your original post. sorry about that. I see what your
trying to
do (not that I know how to do it). But, are you not duplicating what is in
the
Clip Organizer. ISTR that once you run The insert Clip art wizard all the
clip
art you select and have on your computer becomes part of the clip
organizer. I
don't know, as I rarely use the clip art

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]

Right click on your tool bar and select Customize. Either select the Drawing
Tool Bar as one of your tool bars, or under the Commands Tab, with
Drawing
selected, scroll down until you find the clip art icon (head) drag this
to your
existing tool bar. then close the customization window. When you click on this
icon, it will find all your clip art files for you.

As an alternative I need to know how to customize the Clipart Side Panel
to
add

Clipart Gallery...

link below

Clip Organizer...

link. That is:

See Also:
----------------------
Clip Otganizer...
Clipart Gallery...
Clips Online...
Tips for Finding Clips...



DdJ

 

[Michael Koerner]

Thanks Kathy. Learned two things this morning. what you just said, and what Echo
posted. Now I can quit for the day <g>




Yes, and no. Yes, the clips themselves can be imported, but the older ones
come in without any keywords. Not as useful - can't search for them unless
you add the keywords by hand.

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Whoops! mis read your original post. sorry about that. I see what your
trying to
do (not that I know how to do it). But, are you not duplicating what is in
the
Clip Organizer. ISTR that once you run The insert Clip art wizard all the
clip
art you select and have on your computer becomes part of the clip
organizer. I
don't know, as I rarely use the clip art

--
<>Please post all follow-up questions/replies to the newsgroup<>
<><>Email unless specifically requested will not be opened<><>
<><><>Do Provide The Version Of PowerPoint You Are Using<><><>
<><><>Do Not Post Attachments In This Newsgroup<><><>
Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]

Right click on your tool bar and select Customize. Either select the Drawing
Tool Bar as one of your tool bars, or under the Commands Tab, with
Drawing
selected, scroll down until you find the clip art icon (head) drag this
to your
existing tool bar. then close the customization window. When you click on this
icon, it will find all your clip art files for you.

As an alternative I need to know how to customize the Clipart Side Panel
to
add

Clipart Gallery...

link below

Clip Organizer...

link. That is:

See Also:
----------------------
Clip Otganizer...
Clipart Gallery...
Clips Online...
Tips for Finding Clips...



DdJ

 

[Dario de Judicibus]

But, are you not duplicating what is in the
Clip Organizer. ISTR that once you run The insert Clip art wizard all the clip
art you select and have on your computer becomes part of the clip organizer. I
don't know, as I rarely use the clip art

Not really. I have a license of Office XP Standard now: very few cliparts. I
had a license of Office 200 Premium in the past: a huge catalog. There is NO
way to convert Office 2000 clipart catalogs to Office XO ones. I can, of
course, import Office 2000 cliparts in Clip Organizer, but JUST the images,
not the keywords. When you have hundreds clipart, search by keyword is a
MUST. The first thing I tried was to use Clip Organizer with Office 2000
clipart. A mess! Every time I needed to import in PowerPoint an image I knew
it was somewhere in my Office 2000 catalog, I had to scroll pages and pages
of imported cliparts. That is why I reinstalled Clip Gallery. The guy/girl
that decided in MS to develop a new clip organizer without a migration
program from clip gallery was drunck that evening

DdJ

 

[Dario de Judicibus]

Hi, Dario.

I posted to your previous thread, don't know if you saw it or not, so here's
the info I found.

Oh... No, I missed it. Great news. Thank you. I hope the tool will take in
consideration the fact that, until a migration occurs, we have at the same
time both tools (Clip Organizer and Clipart Gallery) so that cliparts are in
different directories. Do not migrate only cliparts from CDs. Having huge HD
today, we can spend 200MB to load clipart on disk rather than using them
from CD.

As for the immediate question, I was able to add a button to open Clip
Gallery from PPT 2002 (aka XP) by doing the following:
...
It's not perfect, because you'll get a "opening files can be dangerous, do
you really want to do this?" dialog when you click the icon, but otherwise,
it seems to work well.

Right, thank you very much. Really a pity the IMPORT button does not work,
but I can use drag & drop to import clipart in PPT. Thank you very much.

DdJ