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
    2013-11-29T06:19:49+00:00

    First it was photo editor, now picture manager!!!!!!!  Typical MS - don't worry about folk who want to use a COMPUTER as a COMPUTER.  Now its all about "Multi media".  Photo gallery is fine if all you want to do is organize your photos but if you want to edit and manipulate them (cropping, resizing etc.) IT IS RUBBISH.

    Microsoft have a remarkable knack of taking the programs you REALLY want and use and replace them with second rate rubbish.

    Mind you, in my opinion Windows 8 is basically rubbish.  Not even a start menu, just some sort of annoying multimedia page full of media and stock reports that I am not in the slightest interested in but no "search function", no links directly to my programs, no direct access to control panel.  Now I have to manually and tediously search via "desktop assist" and then pin EVERYTHING to the task bar.  To me the start page is not just useless but annoying and lacking in functionality for someone who is using the machine for WORK.  Its all about play.

    Ultimately I will have to look for an alternative OS.

    Well done MS.  Every day in every way you work hard - and succeed - in confirming my opinion first formed in the mid 1980's that you are a cancer on the computing industry. Putting your interests above those of the people who pay you and use your increasingly rubbish systems

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-26T00:35:43+00:00

    That is great if you still have the disc or if you have not already exceeded downloads... also it is great if it is compatible with your operating system.  For those that are not lucky enough to fall into this... and if you read the forums... several forums of office and windows.... you will see that soooo many people do not fall under this.  So.. I posted a real solution on how you can download it free from MS ... I don't have the info in front of me, just look for my posts - NV Nikki

    If you can't find my posts, reply to this message and when I have time I will re-post it for you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-25T08:41:32+00:00

    Thanks

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