Ten Minute Guide to Excel 97

Inserting Your Own Clip Art, Video Clips, or Sound Clips

Excel 97 allows you to organize your clip art images, sound clips, and video clips in its Clip Gallery. Once you import a file into the Gallery, you can insert it into any Microsoft Office document, including an Excel workbook, Word document, or PowerPoint presentation. Follow these steps to import a file into the Gallery:

1. Open the Insert menu, select Picture, and select Clip Art.

2. Click the tab for the type of file you want to import. For example, to import a video clip, click the Video tab.

3. Click Import Clips.

4. In the file selector dialog box that appears, change to the folder that contains the file you want to import and select the file from the list.

5. Click Open. The dialog box shown in