Power Point® All?in?One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 4. Decorating Slides with Clip Art

In This Chapter

• Understanding what clip art is

• Placing a clip‐art image on a slide

• Changing the look of a clip‐art image

• Using the Clip Art Organizer to store and insert clip art

This chapter explains how you can use clip art to decorate your slides and how to insert clip‐art images in slides. You'll also find a treatise on how to use the Microsoft Clip Organizer, an auxiliary program for storing clip art and other kinds of media files so that you can find the files in a hurry. If you often use media files in your work, you owe it to yourself to look into the Clip Art Organizer.

What Is Clip Art?

In the old days, long before the invention of computers, people would buy clip‐art books. They would literally cut, or clip, images from these books and paste them into posters, letters, and advertisements. Today's clip art is the digital equivalent of the clip art in those old books. You can paste clip art into computer programs such as PowerPoint. Clip art can be resized without losing its integrity. The clip art that comes with PowerPoint isn't encumbered by licensing restrictions; it's in the public domain, and you can use it as you wish. PowerPoint offers literally thousands of clip‐art images.

Figure 4-1 shows examples of some clip‐art images that come with PowerPoint. Use images like these to decorate your PowerPoint presentations. Use them to help illustrate an idea or simply to add a little liveliness to slides. In my experience, the hardest task ...