What replaces office picture manager in office 2013?

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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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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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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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2013-11-15T14:49:33+00:00
See Mr Robert

The rationale of making a new version is to make it more comfortable. But you MS people are making it more complex. The people should not be going for a technical training to use the the new version.

Just because you made a new version the handy issues that are there in the old versions need not be removed. I am sorry to say the new version (Win 8 ) really sucks with all its handicaps.

I hope you should know the difference between a Tablet and a Laptop. Just because its the age of Apps and for everything ( even for old things), a new app should not be created.

If I cant even make a editing of a phot, and i should down load and buy a new app... then why the fun I need to have a new version?

Money should not be the only criteria in making a new version but the ease with which people can operate. In that scenario, the version 8 has been a users nightmare..
- Vijay Kumar
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Anonymous

2013-11-13T03:11:21+00:00

Hi td903

Yes, I understand what you are saying. At the end of the day, like yourself, I bought Office 2013 with the impression that I was getting an enhanced version of what was before. Not something with reduced functionality.

As a result of the discussions and frustrations shown on this forum, I did find a way of contacting Microsoft directly.

Today I received the following reply:

Dear Mori,

Thank you for submitting your feedback on the availability of Picture Manager in Office 2013. We will ensure that it gets to the appropriate team here at Microsoft for review and consideration.

Your feedback is important and we appreciate you taking the time to contact us.

Thank you,

GetHelp/Customer and Field Advocacy Team – North America

Microsoft Corporation

Case Tracking Information.......

I hope that this might help our cause, and your concerns in particular. Best regards, Mori
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Anonymous

2013-11-12T07:20:05+00:00

Windows Live Photo Galery do it

Hi All.

I have followed CarlosEnciso's advice and downloaded the Windows Live Photo Gallery from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/photo-gallery#photogallery=overview

At first glance, it appears to have a good range of tools in the Edit "Ribbon" that runs above the workspace. A quick excursion through the functions looks promising. Live Photo Gallery appears to have everything that I used in Picture Manager, plus some potentially useful enhancements. The toolbar also invokes additional ribbons for Create and View, both of which appear useful and extensive.

The Create ribbon has a more tools option that leads to a number of interesting Plug-Ins. I have yet to try any of them. See http://plugins.live.com/photo-gallery/category/tools?wlexpid=DC95CEAA05E744B78E6CEF7DDCF0F60C&wlrefapp=4

I will report back after I have had a proper chance to use Live Photo Gallery on an actual project. Other contributors to this forum might also consider downloading Live Photo Gallery themselves, testing it and posting reviews on this forum as well.

Let's hope this is the light at the end of the tunnel that we have been looking for. Bye for now.

Windows Live Photo does work okay (I had to load it on my home computer), but that is not the point. My problem is that I am on the road for months at a time and only have my company laptop. The laptop is locked down and only the 'administrator' can install software to it. I cannot install Windows Live. And traveling like I do, I take a ton of photos.

The funny thing is that previous Office and Windows versions already had everything needed to do anything you wanted with your photos... which is why you keep seeing the "if it's wasn't broken, why fix it" theme in this thread. Why is such a simple principle so lost on Microsoft?

Losing Picture Manager from Office 2013 is bad enough, but what I haven't seen anyone mention here is the change Microsoft made to the photo importer function in the Windows 7 release. Previous versions allowed you to plug your camera in, see all of the photos on it, choose which ones you wanted it import, name them and put them in separate folders. The Windows 7 importer does not allow any of that. You can only import all of them at one time - no preview and selecting the only the ones you want. Another enormous F-up by Microsoft. That was their first attempt to push people to Windows Live (and the reason I had to load it on my home computer). There was never a need for it, before MS created the 'need' just to force people toward their cloud.

And most people do not want your stupid cloud Microsoft! Give it a break, please!
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