Clip Gallery in a Word 2002 World

If you recently upgraded to Word 2002 from Word 2000, you may have noticed that Word 2002 no longer uses the Clip Gallery for organizing clip art. Instead, it uses the Clip Organizer. If you extensively used the Clip Gallery, this change may lead you to wonder how you can access and use the information you previously entered into the Clip Gallery.

Fortunately, there is a way. Follow these steps:

1. Open your document and position the insertion point at the place where you want to insert the clip art.
2. Choose Object from the Insert menu. Word displays the Object dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. From the Object Type list, choose the Microsoft Clip Gallery option.
4. Click on OK.

The Clip Gallery appears, and you can use it like you did in Word 2000. If there is no option for Microsoft Clip Gallery in step 3, then it means that the Clip Gallery is not installed on your computer. It is not installed as a part of Word 2002, but if it was installed as part of Word 2000 and you recently upgraded to Word 2002, then it should still be on the system.