How to download and run Clip Gallery CIL files from the Web (263283)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Clip Gallery 5.0 for Windows
  • Microsoft Publisher 2000
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
This article was previously published under Q263283
For a Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows version of this article, see 160475.

SUMMARY

If you download a clip from the Design Gallery Live site on the World Wide Web, it is downloaded as a .cil (Clip Gallery Package) file. This article explains how to use these files.

MORE INFORMATION

If you have Internet access, you can connect to a special site on the World Wide Web directly from Microsoft Clip Gallery. This site contains additional clip art that you can download.

Here's what happens when you select a piece of clip art to download:
  • Your Web Browser copies a file to your Internet cache directory. This file has a .cil extension.
  • Your Web Browser runs the .cil file. This expands the clip art file and copies it to the following folder in Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98

    C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Catalog\Downloaded Clips

    or to the following folder in Microsoft Windows NT

    C:\WINNT\Profiles\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Catalog\Downloaded Clips

    where username is the name of your personal profile folder.
  • Clip Gallery registers the new clip and adds the information about the clip to your primary .cag file
NOTE: If you have Microsoft Clip Gallery, you can run a .cil file by double-clicking it in Windows Explorer. If you think you have downloaded a new clip but cannot find it in Clip Gallery, search for files with a .cil extension, and then run the appropriate file by double-clicking it.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:9/10/2004
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