Special characters and Character palette.

Special characters are stored in a place called Character palette.

If you are looking for arrows, pointing fingers, smileys, hearts, telephone icons, scissors, zodiac signs, chess pieces, musical notes, mathematical symbols, Greek alphabet and similar, i.e. the symbols that are not on the keyboard but are frequently used, — that's where to look for them.

Popular clipart-like characters (symbols) are in Characters > Symbols > Miscellaneous Symbols.

To access the Character palette from iWork, go to the Edit menu and choose Special characters...

Edit > Special characters

Find the symbol you need and drag it to your document. It is imported as a letter. There are font variations and you can change the colour in the same way as you change the colour of text.

Special characters (the palette) can be accessed from other applications, including TextEdit and Stickies.

If you want to turn the symbol into a piece of clip art, enlarge it and make a screenshot. If needed, remove the white background with Alpha tool in iWork or Preview.

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Scissors clip art for iWork

If your are looking for a clip art image of scissors or a text icon of scissors, in screen-top menu go Edit>Special Characters. 

When Special Characters palette opens, choose Symbols>Miscellaneous Symbols.

There are several scissors characters there. Choose a font variation click and drag into your document. Some font variation include scissors sitting on a dotted line – to indicate where to cut out a coupon.

This character will behave like a letter in text. But if you want a graphic image of scissors make a screenshot (Command+Shift+4) and import it into your document.

Character Palette has masses of clip art images, so check what's there before searching on the internet.

See also 'Clipart for iWork, where is it?' and 'How to design a coupon in iWork/Pages'.