Download Office clip art on a Mac

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It is possible to download free Microsoft clip art on a Mac, as long as you have Office for Mac installed.

 

Internet Explorer and Netscape users: here's a how-to article for you.

 

Firefox and Safari users:

  1. Select the images you want on https://office.microsoft.com/clipart
  2. Click Download items (that's in the left navigation bar, under Selection basket)
  3. Click Download now
  4. When given the choice to open or save, click Save to disk
  5. Choose a folder and click Save
  6. Double-click the clip file to open it in Clip Gallery
  7. if it fails to open, check to see if the clip file name includes a .cil extension; if it doesn't end in .cil, rename the file to include the extension:
    1. Click the file name that you want to add the extension to
    2. Type a new name that ends with .cil
    3. Press RETURN

Tip: Start Firefox and go to Preferences > Main; select Always ask me where to save files, so you know where to find them.

Tip: Start Safari and go to Preferences > General; select a location under Save downloaded files to, so you know where to find them.