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
    2012-10-31T17:46:27+00:00

    I think it's a VERY poor decision to remove this. 

    It was one of the few apps I always used - simple, fast loading, showing image from top and 100% by default, easy and fast rotate / crop. It was exactly what was needed. There's nothing out there so nimble/agile.

    It's an app I'd pay for!

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-10-28T10:51:12+00:00

    I do agree with the OP that Picture Manager was the ultimate tool. But I just installed Photo Gallery and my first impression is "Waao!!!". It has so many options, its only a matter of getting used to now.

    -Abhi

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-09-28T11:10:39+00:00

    MS should rather not push us to a third party the picture manager should updated and included

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