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I don’t know whether to be elated or sad. After several painful generations, Microsoft Office no longer has a Clipart Library.
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\nOkay: I’m elated!<\/p>\n
I detested the Office clipart when it first came out. The artwork was amateurish and crude. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy clipart. I use it! Back in the 1990s, I received a gift of the book 50,000 cliparts (or something). I still have the CDs! The artwork was pretty useful and I adorned my book The Computer Dictionary For Dummies<\/em> with lots of the (public domain) clipart. The Office clipart was cheezy by comparison.<\/p>\n When I’d updated my Word For Dummies<\/em> title, I’d have to trudge through the Clipart Library to ensure that it worked. I would seriously be surprised if anyone actually used the artwork, so I’d make that section in the book super short.<\/p>\n Apparently when you summon Clipart now, you’re taken to Bing Image Search, which is probably what most people do for clipart anyway — albeit with Google Image Search probably more often than Bing.<\/p>\n So adios Microsoft Office clipart! Your absence shall not be noticed.<\/p>\n