Clipart in MS Word 2013

I think what you're saying is that you added these clips (or shortcuts to them) to the locally stored Office Clip Art Gallery or Clip Organizer so that they could be accessed directly from Word using the Insert command. Sadly, MS has been backing away from locally stored clip art for several versions now. But the clip art that you have purchased is still available using Insert | Illustrations | Pictures. You just have to know ahead of time what picture you want. If you clip collection came with catalog (as many of mine did), you have to search the catalog to find the clip you want, then navigate to its location and insert it. I recognize that this is less convenient than being able to search by keyword, but it's what you're left with.

Looking at the files on my system (where I have parts of Office 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013 installed), I see a modest collection of Clip Art apparently intended for use in Publisher (two folders containing 1,657 clips 34 backgrounds) and a Media folder containing subfolders for CAGCAT10 and Office 11, 12, and 14. The Office folders include subfolders for Shapes, Bullets, and Lines. The contents of CAGCAT10 and the Shapes folder are all .wmf files, which can't be previewed, so they're not much help (the Publisher clip art is a combination of GIFs and WMFs. All of my other graphic files are on CDs with printed catalogs.

Legal_Tex, I'm afraid you maybe disappointed if you try to use an older version. From my experience at an elementary school, Microsoft seems to have "turned off" the server where their clipart was stored. If you installed the clipart locally (on the computer) when you installed Office, you might be okay. You can tell what you have installed locally by deselecting Use Office.com content in Word 2010. 2013 may be similar.

This is a deliberate (and in my view, unfortunate) choice by Microsoft to direct users to Bing images instead of the prior options. 

Keetech, thank you for that input!

I don't care anything about using Microsoft's old clipart.  I have purchased many programs that contain clipart.  In the older versions of MS Word, when I'd search for my other clipart (not from MS), I could go to "Insert, Clip Art, From file" and navigate to the clip art program (or disk).  I could get a "preview" of the clip art, so that if I didn't have a little catalog that came with the program, I could scroll through all of the pictures & find what I was wanting to insert into the document.  That functionality is lost in Word 2013.  It only wants to use the Bing images online &/or I can direct it will go to another program or disk, but no preview is available.  So, if I don't know that the image I'm looking for is numbered A2133 (or whatever the program calls it), I can't pull up the image to insert it in my document.  I'd have to select and then delete thousands of images, until I could find the *one* that I'm looking for.  I'm sorry if I'm explaining this poorly! 

I think if I just uninstall Office 2013 and instead install one of my older versions of Office, the preview functionality may still work.  (It does on my old laptop, which has Office 2006 installed on it.)  I understand that Microsoft's clipart may be gone, but I don't care about that if I can still use some of the other clipart programs that I have purchased over the years, such as the program, "Clip Art and More 3 Million Images".

I'm very disappointed with Office 2013.  I've been a very loyal MS Office user since the mid-90s, but it no longer functions as I need it to function!  I have ordered a new copy of WordPerfect & I'm going to see if it still has the functionality that I used to like, before turning to MS Office.

Thank you for trying to help me with my problem!