Troubleshoot clips

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

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  • The clips might be in the Unclassified Clips collection. To learn about adding keywords or moving clips, click Organize Clips on the Clip Art task pane to open Clip Organizer. Then, click Clip Organizer Help on the Help menu.

  • If you can't find a clip that was imported by another user to the computer you're using, it's because the clips you import or change are only visible to you when personal user profiles are enabled. If you do not have profiles enabled, all clips are shared among all of the users of the computer. For more information about user profiles, see Windows Help.

ShowClip Organizer says it can't find a clip.

When Clip Organizer cannot locate a file that you have requested, it usually means that the location of the file has changed. You might have moved or deleted the file, or changed your hardware configuration (for example, added a new disk drive or changed the drive volume to a different letter designation).

ShowI can't see animations in the Clip Organizer task pane.

The thumbnails in the Results pane show only the first frame of the animation. To view the entire animation, open the clip in the Preview window.

  1. Click the arrow next to the media clip you want to preview.

  2. Click Preview/Properties.

Adding clips to documents

ShowI see a checkered flag icon instead of a clip.

When you insert or drag a picture or motion clip into your document, and you do not have a graphics filter installed for that clip, you may get an image of a checkered flag instead.

Please make note of the information in the accompanying dialog box, which will explain why your request was not processed and will point you to solving the problem.

Editing clips

Show I ungrouped my clip and I can't select all the pieces.

If you want to edit part of a group— change the color of a shape, for example— it's best to subselect the part you want to edit instead of ungrouping the entire clip into individual drawing objects.

ShowHow?

  1. Click on the grouped object to select it.

  2. Click again on the individual object within the group to subselect it.

    The selection handles of the item will show as gray circles.

    Subselected object

  3. Edit the object as you want.

If you do ungroup a clip into individual drawing objects, you can restore the individual objects to one clip by selecting all the pieces and then grouping them.

To do this, on the Object toolbar, click Select Objects Button image. To select all the clip's pieces, hold down the mouse button and draw a square around the entire clip. On the lower right corner of the object border, click Group Button image.

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