What replaces office picture manager in office 2013?

Anonymous
2012-07-17T15:09:08+00:00

The Office Picture Manager has been a very quick and easy tool to use, built into Office and readily available no matter what machine I have to use.  I would rather not have to install 3rd party software to do what MS has made easy to do in the past.

Any word on what this app is called now and where it's hidden in the Office 2013 install?

Thanks!

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Anonymous
2014-11-13T02:58:20+00:00

The best workaround I've found is to use the free SharePoint Designer 2010 to bootstrap the MS Office Picture Manager.

You can get the SharePoint Installer from this post:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Office_Suites/MS_Office/A_12697-How-to-Install-Microsoft-Office-Picture-Manager-in-Office-2013.html

Then, for more detailed instructions, you can follow the Guide Here:

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-install-and-get-microsoft-office-picture-manager-back-in-office-2013/

The short version is to run the installer.  

Then choose "Customize" instead of "Install Now".  

Then deselect everything that's not "Office Tools" > "Microsoft Office Picture Manager"

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2012-07-24T18:18:50+00:00

The Office Picture Manager has been a very quick and easy tool to use, built into Office and readily available no matter what machine I have to use.  I would rather not have to install 3rd party software to do what MS has made easy to do in the past.

Any word on what this app is called now and where it's hidden in the Office 2013 install?

Thanks!

Hey John,

You are correct that Office Picture Manager was removed from the suite. Inside programs such as PowerPoint and Word there are still editing tools. You also have Windows Live Photo Gallery which I feel is a much more program specific picture editing tool. Hopefully the small change does not effect your trial of the Next Microsoft Office.

Thanks for Posting!

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-09-04T12:09:16+00:00

    To jump on the bandwagon, I will label this one of the biggest inconveniences of recent times. OPM was my go-to software for compressing, resizing, cropping and so on - easy to use, no mistakes, a great tool. Bad decision Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-03T16:20:41+00:00

     I talked at length to the MS helopdesk who suggested I get the whole computer replaced. 

    Seriously... not helpful at all! Wow.

    All I can offer are these two links... if you have admin rights on your machine it's pretty simple... it worked for me and was a 5-minute fix.

    Method 1: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-install-and-get-microsoft-office-picture-manager-back-in-office-2013/

    Method 2: http://www.technicaloverload.com/install-office-picture-manager-office-2013/

    I do agree with other comments... damn stupid move on Microsoft's part. The ONLY reason it wasn't included is because they didn't update the way it LOOKED... so they didn't want it to to make the new software look patched.  For two or three years they blasted all over the internet how useful it was... any search for picture/image manipulation jumped to Office Picture Manager... then poof.

    Totally stupid move.

    Try method #1... one of two things will happen...

    1. It will install perfectly. (Yeay!)
    2. Your system won't allow it to be installed. (You are no worse off for trying.)

    Either way... you won't have to repeat your nightmare.

    Jerry

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-03T13:16:04+00:00

    Can anyone advise what easy picture editor to use with office 365 if possible that won't involve uninstalling the office?  I am very wary about this after what happened last week when my new surface pro 3 went into meltdown....

    Utterly fed up to find no picture manager when I recently bought a surface pro 3 and 365 personal, I looked at another thread and downloaded live photo gallery (which I still didn't like anything like as much as manager as I mainly just want to compress, crop and straighten quickly).

    three days later the computer suddenly went into meltdown.  As well as refusing to turn off, and then on, when I finally got it going, using a two button reset, many functions didn't work at all and eveything took ages.  worst of all, it became untouchably hot within minutes of turning on, the fan was whirring like an aircraft about to take off and the batttery draining within half an hour.  I talked at length to the MS helopdesk who suggested I get the whole computer replaced.  My heart sank as I'd spent hours and hours loading stuff, beginnning to learn how it works etc etc.

    As I last ditch I restored it to before installing the live gallery.  It worked in that the whirring, overheating etc stopped. Word and Outlook weren't working, I was invited to delete the shortcut which wiped off the whole programmes but an advanced repair reinstalled them without losing data and my settings.  

    The whole episode took hours and hours and alot of worry.  I work for myself and on the move a lot so I need a reliable, high spec and light machine.  I really thought the pro 3 would fit the bill.

    I am terrified of going through the process described above again but I really need something to quick edit picturesespecially to compress.

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