Searching for and inserting Clip Art or pictures from other online sources from within Word isn't currently supported in Word 2016 for Mac. However, you can still add Clip Art and online pictures to a document by searching for the picture you want online, saving a local copy of it, and then inserting the copy you saved.

Advertisement Remember Microsoft’s clip art? Neither did I until this week, when Redmond announced that. Or, to put it another way: once upon a time, we were all but now, anyone looking for classic clip art feels mostly To be fair, the clip art gallery you remember from days of yore is already long gone – in Office 2013, clip art was an online-only feature.

Quicken for mac lifetime planner. If you’re like most people you didn’t notice, because you haven’t used clip art since Want to use Google Images like a pro? Here are advanced tips you should know for successful image searches launched in 2001, but for quite a while Office’s clip art feature was an embed of an online service. It’s that online service that is, as of this week, gone. In it’s place: a Bing Image Search, filtered to only show you Creative Commons images.

Why Clip Art Was Somewhat Good It’s easy to make fun of Microsoft’s old image gallery. There’s a Tumblr page full of and it’s freaking hilarious. Microsoft’s gallery had an aesthetic, to be sure, and it wasn’t high art. But these images, cheesy as they are, were also incredibly useful in their time. It wasn’t easy to quickly find images in the dial-up age, and an entire industry of CD-ROMs you could buy for $50+ tried to fill that niche. You could buy those, or you could stick with what you already had: Microsoft’s clip art. There it was, inside the program you were already using. Sure, it wasn’t pretty, but you could quickly add a visual highlight to your document or presentation. Even better: everything was rights-cleared, meaning you could use it in your document or PowerPoint presentation without the It's a confusing subject, yes, but it's important that you wrap your head around it.

If you're involved in any sort of creative work, these resources will help you do just that. In 2014 there’s a lot more choice out there – Finding a great photo isn't that hard. Using that perfect photo can also come without sweat and cost. The five sources here ease your hunt because you simply subscribe to them with an email., without much legal worry. Even better: a lot of them look great. You just need to know where to look.

Microsoft’s new embedded search will help with this. What Is Creative Commons? It’s not hard to find images to use online – just use an image search. This works well, but it’s worth noting that doing so isn’t necessarily legal. Most of the images you can find this way are owned by their original creators.

This likely doesn’t matter if you’re only using something for private use, or even a school assignment, but if you intend to publish a work you need to make sure all rights are cleared. Which brings us to Creative Commons, the license Office’s new Bing-powered search filters for. My colleague Danny explained Creative Commons is a set of licenses which automatically give you permission to do various things, such as reuse and distribute the content. Let's find out more about it and how to use it., but the quick version is that it’s a way for artists to tell the web their images are free to use.

So Microsoft took down the clip art gallery, but is arguably offering something even better: a constantly updated stream of rights-cleared images. You’ll find photos, which look a lot better than clip art ever did. It’s hard to see this as anything but an improvement, really. Is there a potential downside?