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
    2013-11-02T10:37:26+00:00

    At least make Picture Manager a downloadable option

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-02T10:36:01+00:00

    Of course it has an effect, yet another reason why Win 8 and the new office suites are a major step back in usability. Win 8 is all for people who look at stuff and don't actually do anything PLEASE PUT WIN 7 and the older versions of Office back on the market

    Did Microsoft actually try Win 8 before they put it on the market

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-01T15:06:40+00:00

    Microsoft, do you go out of your way to identify the features that are of value to customers, and deliberately remove them? What sort of market research do you do when developing these features? Anyone who has used Picture Manager in the past will testify that it is a key area of value on this platform. I strongly recommend that this be rectified, and a Picture Manager be made available as soon as possible. I will not purchase Windows 8 without this feature and I recommend others to shop around for other platforms that have this type of functionality.  Not to mention all the other usability challenges of Windows 8.

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