All Clip Art is converted to bitmaps in Microsoft Clip Gallery 08

[Marty]

In the "good old days" Microsoft Clip Gallery preserved the WMV status of
clip art downloaded from the website. In the "step backward modern times" the
clip art is converted to bitmap images. This is less than helpful. Even
re-installing Office V.x does not help (even though it worked just fine)
because somehow 08 breaks it so .CIL files wi only load into the inferior 08
Clip Gallery product.

Why was this done?

Can it be prevented or is there a way to use the clip art without Clip
Gallery?

[Mary Sauer]

Help for Macintosh users
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/HP010461351033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP010461351033&ShowHeader=true&CTT=3&Origin=ES790000501033

Top 5 Support Issues
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx
--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Post by Marty
In the "good old days" Microsoft Clip Gallery preserved the WMV status of
clip art downloaded from the website. In the "step backward modern times" the
clip art is converted to bitmap images. This is less than helpful. Even
re-installing Office V.x does not help (even though it worked just fine)
because somehow 08 breaks it so .CIL files wi only load into the inferior 08
Clip Gallery product.
Why was this done?
Can it be prevented or is there a way to use the clip art without Clip
Gallery?

[Marty]

Thanks for the attempt, but those websites do NOT resolve my problem.

Post by Mary Sauer
Help for Macintosh users
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/HP010461351033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP010461351033&ShowHeader=true&CTT=3&Origin=ES790000501033
Top 5 Support Issues
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx
--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Post by Marty
In the "good old days" Microsoft Clip Gallery preserved the WMV status of
clip art downloaded from the website. In the "step backward modern times" the
clip art is converted to bitmap images. This is less than helpful. Even
re-installing Office V.x does not help (even though it worked just fine)
because somehow 08 breaks it so .CIL files wi only load into the inferior 08
Clip Gallery product.
Why was this done?
Can it be prevented or is there a way to use the clip art without Clip
Gallery?

[Mary Sauer]

I've no experience with a Mac. There are Mac newsgroups, maybe someone there can
help
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.mac.office&cat=en_US_ea0909e3-d3b5-4294-847e-793e750bb396&lang=en&cr=US
--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Post by Marty
Thanks for the attempt, but those websites do NOT resolve my problem.

Post by Mary Sauer
Help for Macintosh users
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/HP010461351033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP010461351033&ShowHeader=true&CTT=3&Origin=ES790000501033
Top 5 Support Issues
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx
--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Post by Marty
In the "good old days" Microsoft Clip Gallery preserved the WMV status of
clip art downloaded from the website. In the "step backward modern times" the
clip art is converted to bitmap images. This is less than helpful. Even
re-installing Office V.x does not help (even though it worked just fine)
because somehow 08 breaks it so .CIL files wi only load into the inferior 08
Clip Gallery product.
Why was this done?
Can it be prevented or is there a way to use the clip art without Clip
Gallery?

[Marty]

I have taken my question over there.

Thanks.