Note: Clip Organizer was retired after Office 2010.

Get started

  1. Click Start.

  2. Click Programs.

  3. Select Microsoft Office, and then select Microsoft Clip Organizer (If you’re using Office 2010 you may need to first open the Microsoft Office 2010 Tools folder to find it).

Add clips to the Organizer from a folder

  1. On the File menu, point to Add Clips to Organizer, and then click On My Own.

  2. Locate the folder that contains the clips you want to add.

  3. Select the clips, then click Add.

Add clips to the Organizer from a scanner or camera

  1. On the File menu, point to Add Clips to Organizer, and then click From Scanner or camera.

  2. From the list, select a device.

  3. Click Insert or Custom Insert.

  4. Select the image that you want, or select several images by clicking Ctrl and selecting each image.

  5. Click Get Pictures.

Warning:  Publisher 2010 does not support importing from a scanner or camera.

Note: In My Collections, Clip Organizer creates a folder with the device name.

Add clips to the Organizer from an Office program

  1. Open Clip Organizer.

  2. Click Collection List.

  3. In an Office program, click the picture you want to add to a collection.

  4. Drag the picture to a collection folder.

Media file-types you can add

You can add the following file types to Clip Organizer:

File Type

Extension

Microsoft Windows Metafile

.emf, .wmf

Windows Bitmap

.bmp, .dib, .rle

Computer Graphics Metafile

.cgm

Graphics Interchange Format

.gif

Joint Photographic Experts Group

.jpg

Portable Network Graphics

.png

Macintosh PICT

.pct

Tagged Image File Format

.tif

Vector Markup Language

.vml

Microsoft Windows Media

.avi, .asf, .asx, .rmi, .wma, .wax, .wav

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