# 3550- Accessing Corel MEGA GALLERY™ Clipart

This document describes how to open and export Corel MEGA GALLERY™ clipart.

Before you can access the clipart, ensure that Corel MEGA GALLERY has been correctly
installed.  Consult the Quickstart manual for details on installation.


Selecting and viewing a Clipart Thumbnail Image
1.  Insert CD-ROM #1, and launch Corel MEGA GALLERY.
2.  Click NEXT, and click CLIPART.  Click NEXT again.
3.  Select a clipart category, and click Next.
4.  If the following message" X:\MEGAGAL\ALBUM NAME.GAL Is Read Only." is generated;
click OK.  
5. Click the desired clipart thumbnail from the sub-album. 

There are three ways to place the drawing into a document, copy and paste, export and import,
and drag and drop.  There is also a way to view the selected thumbnail image using the Corel
GALLERY 2 mini editor.


Viewing an Image using the Mini Editor
1.  After performing step 6 from the above procedure, SHIFT, double-click the image.  This will
launch the Corel GALLERY mini editor.  You can change the associated application to launch. 
Instead of launching the Corel GALLERY mini editor, you can associated CorelDRAW™ 5 or 6.
Applications that can be associated, must support the CMX filter. 

Note:  By clicking File, Preferences, Editors, you can control the way the editors and associated
applications are launched. 


Copy And Pasting
1.  Click the desired clipart image, and click Edit, Copy.

2.  Open the document you wish to insert the image into, and click Edit, Paste.

Note:  When you close Corel GALLERY, you will be prompted answer Yes or No to the
question of leaving the data on the clipboard.  Clicking yes allows you to paste the same piece of
clipart multiple times in any application, until the Clipboard contents are changed.


Exporting And Importing
1.  Click the clipart image, and click File, Export.
2.  Click an export filter from the List Files of Type list box.  Make certain to use a filter
supported by the other application.  Refer to the online Help or manual for the target application
for information about supported file types.

3.  Type a file name, and choose an export destination. 

4.  Click OK, and exit Corel MEGA GALLERY.

Once the clipart has been exported, you can import the clipart into the target application. Refer to
the online Help or manual for the target application for information about importing.


Drag And Dropping
This method is only available if the second application is an OLE 2.0 client, Refer to the online
Help or manual for the target application for information about OLE 2.0 compliancy.  

1.  Open the target application, and switch back to Corel GALLERY MEGA using ALT, TAB or
CTRL, ESC.  

2.  Tile the applications so that both windows are visible on the screen.  

3.  Click and drag the clipart image from Corel GALLERY MEGA to the target application.