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
    2016-02-22T22:16:01+00:00

    Seriously, is Windows Photo Viewer an alternative to Microsoft Picture Manager.  I think not.  It does not even allow me to crop a photo.  Windows Photo Viewer is not the answer to not having Microsoft Picture Manager.  That need to be patched.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-08T14:52:29+00:00

    Office 2013 doesn't come with Windows Live Photo Gallery. They removed that one, too

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T16:56:27+00:00

    I agree with the group that it was a very poor decision to remove picture manger from 2013.  I have read the responses and don't like being forced to use Microsoft Live or the Cloud to manage my pictures.  Everyone is introducing and pushing cloud uses these days, the downfall to that is if I decide not to renew my subscription with Microsoft I will lose what ever is in the cloud.  So cloud usage forces you to stay with that program.

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