Microsoft Clip Art Gallery for Mac file
File type: Various data file
An MSCG file is a data file used by Microsoft Clip Art Gallery for Mac.
It belongs to the Clip Art Gallery component that accompanied some earlier versions of Microsoft Office for Mac.
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: September 28, 2026
Microsoft Clip Art Gallery was a Microsoft application for browsing and using collections of clip art. An MSCG file contains data used by the Mac version of the gallery, such as information associated with its clip-art collection.
The format is tied to the older Macintosh release of Microsoft Office and is not a general-purpose image format. It is separate from the image files that the gallery displays or makes available to Office applications.
MSCG is a legacy format. Microsoft Clip Art Gallery is no longer included with current Microsoft Office releases for Apple macOS, so modern versions of macOS and Office may not open these files directly.
Open an MSCG file with the original Microsoft Clip Art Gallery for Mac, where it was used with the relevant older version of Microsoft Office for Mac. The application may need to run in a compatible older Mac OS or Mac OS X environment.
Current Office applications generally do not support this legacy format. If the file is part of an old clip-art collection, preserve the complete collection and its associated files when attempting to open it.
MSCG is gallery data rather than a standard image file, so changing the file extension will not convert it.
If the file opens in the original Clip Art Gallery, use that application's available export or copy functions to save individual clip-art items in a current image format. Otherwise, conversion may not be practical.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving mscg files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
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