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importing clipart from "my doc. to publisher"

I have recently downloaded some clipart. photos and the like to my windows 98 "my document folder", when I am doing some work in lets say Microsoft Publisher how to I access these files or am I doing all this wrong. I know that these files take up alot of space and I should be obtaining these images on cd's but I'm just doing a few to see how this works before I buy any clipart software, as you can probably can tell I am a newbie! Thanks for your help... :)
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You should be able to just open then from the File/Open command in Microsoft publisher. You need to know the directory where they're located. Usually this will be:

C:\My Documents

You insert a frame to hold the image into your document and then load the file into the frame. As a general rule you should crop or modifiy the image *PRIOR* to loading it into Publisher using Photo Shop or other similar tool. You can save a *LOT* of space by down converting the image from, say, 24-bit color to 8-bit color and by reducing the image size/resolution as much as possible. If you crop a large image in publisher so you can only see a small portion the "invisible" parts are still carried along with the document and your load/save/print times will be excessive.

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To insert to picture in Publisher...

1. start up Microsoft Publisher.
2. select a blank page to work on
3. on the menu at the top of the application select 'Insert'
4. under this menu option you will find 'Picture File..'. Select it.
5. a file selection window will appear. Select the directory you require and/or drive using the middle windows, drive and directory.
6. Oncle in the correct directory you will see the files in the left listbox.
7. select a file, click OK and the image is in your document.


I'm sorry but I have Microsoft Publisher 2.0 and I do not see on the menu at the top anything that says insert, maybe it is called something else in this version. At the top of my page I have these headings, " FILE, EDIT, PAGE, LAYOUT, FORMAT, TABLE, TOOLS,  and HELP" I assume you want me to go into the one called FILE but it does not have a lable in it called INSERT. Sorry to be such a goof...!
just copy from a word document and paste it in the publisher document.... It's the fastest and easiest way to do it...
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