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
    2016-01-01T04:01:21+00:00

    That was a dumb **** thing to do......removing Picture manager was flat out dumb!!!!! It was and has been one of the most useful apps in the entire suite!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-16T20:33:40+00:00

    Yes, the editing in Word and PowerPoint usually suffice when you are working in them directly.

    I guess I was used to using Picture Manager as my default picture editor/manager since it came with Office already and it looks like more people did not so MS dropped it.  That's a shame.

    I guess I will use MS's cloud solution versus installing someone else.

    The problem I have with that is that MS is dumping Live and changing it so I will have to change all that again soon.

    Everything has to be "cloud" oriented these days...

    Oh well - My trial with Office is going well.  Much better than with Windows 8 Release Preview.  I love the OS, but every time any installation I have running has a power failure, it corrupts, cannot repair it, and has to be completely re-installed. So I have to make sure I have a daily backup or else I have to reinstall Windows 8 every time.

    Thank you for your response!

    Don't go down with a "fight" when a product was good and the new is "not as good" they need to hear about it.  Lots of folks used Microsoft Picture Manager and found it very good.  I agree with kmadley,  we need to tell them they are not getting it right regarding the loss of the "app"

    :-(

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-30T15:16:57+00:00

    I understand this person's pain. I was reading every post and was going to scroll to the end of this page and select the last page, but I saw this long post and had to read. Now I must reply for perspective and future readers (I'm reading this two years after it posted).

    All comments up to this point that called the Office Picture Manager (OPM) useful reflect my own usage. If I need quick and simple crop and/or file resize for things like Outlook contact pictures or uploading to social sites, screenshots/clips to email to someone showing them how to do something and any other simple task that you just want done so you can move on with the task you need the picture for, OPM was perfect in my opinion and it seems like the opinion of others so far. It loaded fast and all those options were one or two clicks away. You could save, or save-as to keep your original, and close the program in a second.

    If I wanted to EDIT pictures to make them look better as it seems that's what you needed, honestly, I looked elsewhere. Picture editing is a task in itself and deserves a program that may take a little longer to load and has so many features that its menus are deep and simple things like CROP take a few clicks to get to. This sounds like what you wanted to use OPM for.

    I reply to this post, not specifically for the one that posted it since I'm two years late, but for anyone else searching for a solution like the majority of posters up to this point because this poster wrote: "but you should before you say the app was really all you ever needed." For those things things in the second paragraph, that WAS all I ever needed. OPM did it quickly and then got out of my way so I could move on with the ACTUAL task at hand.

    Since so many are missing this feature, some genius should write a simple app to do that and sell it for $4.99 (after a trial, of course). I bet they'd make a killing. If only I knew how to code...

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