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Microsoft Visio 2010 : Importing Graphics (part 3) - Adding Clip Art to Your Diagrams

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2. Adding Clip Art to Your Diagrams

You don’t have to leave Visio to access a library of images and vector-based line art. Head over to the Insert tab, click Clip Art in the Illustrations group and you see the Clip Art task pane. This gives you access to a searchable library of quality photos and illustrations which can be added to your diagrams by dragging and dropping.

The Clip Art task pane has a search field which makes it easier to find just the graphic you’re looking for. You can refine your search to look for all media types or any combination of illustrations, photos, videos, or audio. In Figure 3, you see the result of a search on “Wind power,” which returned photos and vector illustrations. A few of the results have been dragged into a drawing, where they instantly become Visio shapes in your diagram.

Figure 3. Simply drag clip art search results from the task pane into your drawing.

There is undoubtedly a setup option or two for installing or not installing clip art locally on your system when you install Visio and Office. This is probably a non-issue, though, because there is a check box to “Include Office.com Content” box. Checking this option allows you to access the latest and greatest clip art stored and organized on Microsoft’s servers.

If you want to have access to a search result in the future but fear you might be offline when the time comes, right-click an item in the Clip Art task pane and choose Make Available Offline. This opens a dialog that enables you to save the item to your local clip art store, so it is always accessible.

If you are looking for vector art that you can pull apart and edit in Visio, search for illustrations only. Since illustrations are vector based, you can ungroup them and use the pieces in for your own custom Visio shapes. Figure 4 shows the dissection of a piece of clip art.

Figure 4. An imported Office.com illustration clip art is ungrouped. This converts it to a collection of Visio shapes which you can access individually. Here, the Mt. Rainier graphic is swiped from a Washington State license plate illustration.
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