Adding ClipArt

Clip Art can include: scans, CD-Rom, Commercial Clip Art & the Internet.

PowerPoint comes with a wide variety of predefined images. This collection of images includes photographs, drawings, and other types of graphics that can be added to your presentation.

There are two ways you can insert clipart. You can choose the Slide Layout with the Content icon or you can use the Clip Art button located on the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, and you can choose from the Clip Art gallery.

4. Type the topic that you want a picture of in the Search for: text box, and click the Go button.
5. Once you have selected a picture, click on it, and it will be placed in the slide.

1. Click on the Insert tab.
2. Click on the Clip Art button.
3. Your Clip Art task pane opens on the right side of the window.
4. Type the topic of your picture in the Search for: text box at the top of the Clip Art task pane and click the Go button. Select the clipart you wish to insert from the task pane, and it will be inserted into the slide. You could also search for clipart online by clicking on the Clip Art on Office Online link at the bottom of the Clip Art task pane.

If you want to use the existing Clip Art from Microsoft's Office Collection, click on the Organize clips link at the bottom of the Clip Art task pane and the Clip Organizer window opens.

When you click on the Collection List link on the toolbar, the Collection List task pane pops up on the left side of the window. Click the plus sign next to the Office Collections to expand the menu. Click on a topic and the pictures show on the right side of the window. Click on the drop-down list next to the clipart that you wish to insert and click on Copy. Return to the PowerPoint slide and click on Paste under the Home tab in the Clipboard group or right-click on the slide and choose Paste.

Once you close the Clip Organizer or the Clip Art task pane, you can edit the Clip Art with the Picture Tools Format tab that comes up each time you select the clipart image. If you do not see the Format tab when you select the graphic, click on Format under the Picture Tools tab.