Learn how to download Clip Media from Microsoft's Office.com PowerPoint for Windows. This feature is not available, and this page is being maintained for archival reasons.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows
Stop Press: The Office.com site no longer provides access to clip media. So, the techniques on this page will no longer work. We are retaining this page as a historical reference of what was possible in the past.
There is no dearth of sites providing royalty-free pictures that can be used in your PowerPoint presentations. However, none of these provide the breadth of choices that you can find at the Microsoft Office site (Office.com). Even better, all these pictures are free to all licensed users of Microsoft Office programs such as PowerPoint. Office.com allows you to download various types of clip media, including pictures:
How you download the clip media content from Office.com may differ if you are using Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, or another browser. We used both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer for this tutorial. Differences in how they work will be highlighted later within this tutorial:
Note: Since Office.com is a web site and not an application, there might be changes in how the layout is organized—and also the tabs shown may change. This is a great option in case you want to search for only a particular type of clip media, since you can uncheck all other check-boxes. By default, the All check-box is selected to enable the search for all types of clip media as you can see in Figure 2, below.
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