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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2013-03-21T07:45:09+00:00

I cannot believe what I'm reading. I bought this PC to replace my old laptop with Vista on it and now am absolutely amazed that my favourite picture manager which was so easy to use for editing the many photographs that I load - has disappeared. My search for a download on Google has resulted in a web which I was about to open but now having read the above caution, I'm hesitant. What a mistake it was buying this new laptop at an airport en route to a holiday. I wasted 2 days of it trying to load as also there was no guidance that the file should be saved before running it.

Come on Microsoft improve for your customers not yourselves.

Back to my old laptop is now a reality.
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2013-03-21T04:26:58+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.

Hopefully the small change does not effect your trial of the Next Microsoft Office.

It's affect, not effect, and yes it affects the trial. I will advise waiting for OIS.EXE's return.
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2013-03-20T16:33:54+00:00

agreed - the features for photo brightness, rotation and resizing are important for sending client photos. now I'm stuck with 2MB files that don't easily attach to email and photos that cannot be brightened. pasting images into word locks the images into a word document and editing with power point seems like a waste of time.

we preferred windows xp pro over vista and windows 7 over windows 8. there's no solution for a lack of office photo manager for office 2013?
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