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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2015-06-12T15:08:37+00:00

As usual: TERRIBLE decision from Microsoft. I will never understand why are they so stubborn in going always against users' will and preferences.

Most of changes after Office 2003 go that way.
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Anonymous

2015-06-02T18:13:28+00:00

I actually found Live Photo Gallery to be a little confusing and way more than I needed. Picture Manager is small, manageable, and does EXACTLY what I need it to do (resize a batch of jpg's both horizontally and vertically, in one step. I also like the other simple formatting features like crop, rotate and brightness. I had to have the old version of this program reinstalled after the 2013 upgrade because I could not find anything that works as well!

I think the Microsoft developers are making a big mistake by getting rid of this simple and easy little program. It doesn't need a lot of fancy updates (as the reason for the removal of it suggests) because it is fine the way it is! PLEASE bring back Office Picture Manager in the next version! After reading through a bunch of forums during my research of alternatives, I think a LOT of people would agree.
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Anonymous

2015-06-01T13:42:30+00:00

Such a shame. I found this a great tool to quickly resize a photo to insert in a webpage or correct the colour. Other tools are available and some are in Word but I had set Picture Manager to be the default JPG opener as I used it so often. Going to try the Sharepoint installer method but it would have been much easier if Microsoft could just have made it a free download of it's own.
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