Re: Office 2003 Clip Art
From: Cerridwen (cerridwen_at_celticnet.com)
Date: 04/21/04
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:43:53 +0100
David Lovell wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I work in a school, and we have 30 machines, all
> installed with office 2003 on windows xp.
>
> When the children (and anyone else for that matter) tries
> to access the clipart, it takes forever to load the
> clipart, and if any of you have children/work with them,
> you'll know how impatient they can be! So this causes a
> problem with them trying to find pictures to put in their
> documents.
>
> Now if I remove the "search on web collections", it loads
> up much faster, but gives 1 (if I'm lucky) result.
> However, this is a problem to do, as all users have their
> own accounts on the network, so would be unable to set
> their account to have this set to default (as far as I
> can see at least, if I'm wrong, someone please correct
> me!)
>
> Anyway, the ideal solution would be to install all the
> clipart on the server (or the local machines) and for the
> searches to search either of these locations rather than
> the internet!
>
> Is there anyway to do this, or at least to speed up the
> process of it searcing on the internet? As we have a
> 2mbit connection, so I can't see it being the connection
> from our end being the problem!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> David Lovell
To the best of my knowledge there is no way of speeding up the download
time - it's governed by MS server, not your connection and that, at times,
can be glacial; and I don't think there is any way of downloading the lot to
a local (for local read server) drive, either.
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