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.

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Back in the ‘90s, Clip Art took over Word and PowerPoint files ...

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.".

Microsoft just announced > that it's replacing the cheesetastic images with web-searchable galleries, effectively ending clip art as we ... Microsoft Word 6.0 included 82 WMF clip-art files.

Microsoft Kills Its Clip Art Gallery. ... Customers can still add images to their documents, presentations, and other files that they have saved to their devices (phones, tablets, and PCs), ...

Clip art search is still inside Office – for now . When you want to add an image to your file, head to the ribbon and click Insert, then Online Pictures.You’ll currently see three choices ...

Microsoft didn’t add clip art files to its software until 1996. It began with 82 images and its library closed with more than 140,000 files. WHAT BING'S IMAGE USAGE RIGHTS MEAN.

Microsoft began to offer Clip Art as a free built-in feature of their products in the mid-1990s. From having only 82 Clip Art files in 1996, the collection eventually grew.

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.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - Before the days of search engines, placing images into Word documents went like this: Insert > Picture > Clip Art.Those days are long gone. Now, you can just as easily find ...