M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching

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MS Word Clip Art and Firefox

If Firefox is your default web browser, you may have a problem with clip art that you download from the MS Office free online clip art. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

The clip art downloads and looks like this:

Clip Art icon

When you click on it, it may try to open in Text Edit or fail to install in the Clip Art Gallery. Fortunately, there is a very simple fix. Add the extension to the file name. Change “ClipArt” to “ClipArt.cil”

Immediately, the icon changes.

Clip Art icon with extension

Now when you double click on it,  it installs into your Office Clip Art gallery.

This problem doesn’t occur when you use Safari to download the Clip Art.

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