Good morning ladies 'n gents
I have been asked to produce a decorative banner for a children's Hallowe'en party that is taking place in our local village hall. This sent me scurrying yesterday evening to my trusty PC (XP Home/Office Pro 2003) and I duly found a mountain of hallowe'en-related clipart, both pre-loaded on my PC and on the M$ website.
Using Publisher (which I admit I haven't done for some time) because it has a banner template, I found that - although I could see the clipart (*.wmf) perfectly well on the screen - when I tried to import it all I got was an empty frame! I tried downloading similar clipart from the M$ website and - again although I could see it OK - the downloads failed to go into Clip Organizer every time.
I also tried importing the same clips into Word and got an error script 'not a valid embedded file' or similar, so it would appear that the clipart facility in Office generally is comprehensively bu@@ered.
In the end I downloaded the 60-day free trial version of Publisher 97, but exactly the same thing happened with the *.wmf clipart in this application too...
Anyone know of a fix for this? I have already tried Detect and Repair with no luck.
Incidentally, I managed to complete the Hallowe'en project using non-M$ clipart found at various places on the Interweb, so the immediate crisis has passed; however obviously I would like to get my Office clipart up and running again!
Cheers in advance
Gadget 