Microsoft Office ditches clip art, offers Bing-powered image search instead. by Blair Hanley Frank on December 1, 2014 at 10:35 am December 1, 2014 at 11:07 am. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

For Microsoft Office 2013, users can click "insert" and then select "online pictures." In order versions of the program, "insert" and "clip art" will do the trick.

You’d better enjoy Microsoft’s cheesy Office Clip Art catalog while you can, because it may be going away in favor of Bing. According to a Microsoft support page, the company is retiring its ...

Microsoft quietly bid farewell to its “Clip Art” image library Tuesday, acknowledging that Word or PowerPoint users can find generic images of bunnies, money bags or cherry bombs through ...

Theage.com says over the years, Clip Art grew into an expansive library, from "only 82 illustrations built into Word 6.0 in 1996 ... to more than 100,000 static and moving images housed online.".

As a reminder, in Office 2013, Clip Art can be accessed by clicking Insert and then Online Pictures. In Office 2010 and Office 2007, go to Insert and then Clip Art to search for pictures in the menu.

In later years, Microsoft shifted its Clip Art portfolio online, eventually hosting more than 100,000 images. Microsoft dumps Clip Art for Office in favor of Bing Image Search.

If you can’t remember, you’re not alone: Microsoft’s Office team today announced it is doing away with Clip Art’s online image library and replacing it with Bing Image Search.

Microsoft announced that it is eliminating clip art libraries from its suite of Office productivity software, and replacing it with Bing Image search. But the iconic illustrations may live on.

Clip art, those delightful images reminiscent of the 90s, are set to become a thing of the past as Microsoft announced today they’re doing away with them in favor of Bing Images.

Clip art. Microsoft has just announced that it’s killing off the last trace of clip art in its Office products, instead pointing users in need of imagery toward Bing Image Search. Why?

THE humble and indisputably cheesy Clip Art is about to get punched out, with Microsoft announcing it is shutting down the online library and turning to the web. Read Today's Paper Tributes.