As graphics are used more and more frequently in documents and Web pages, people need better tools to find and manage graphics files. The Clip Art Gallery in Office 2001 provides several advanced tools to make these tasks simpler. The Clip Art Gallery supplies many standard categories for the clip art it contains. However, the gallery also allows you to create custom categories for organizing images any way you would like. Images can be added to categories from virtually any source, and keywords are included to make finding them a simple matter.
Images are copied to programs in their original format rather than being converted to a bitmap.
Other improvements make the Clip Art Gallery easier to use. You can now simply drag images from the gallery directly to Office documents. You can leave the Clip Art Gallery open while editing documents and select graphics as you go rather than having to reopen the gallery each time. You can also optionally display the Clip Art Gallery in a much smaller window, letting you see more of a document while you select an image. The Clip Art Gallery also gives you access to Microsoft's Clip Gallery Live, an online collection that includes thousands of pieces of clip art that is constantly updated free of charge.