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
    2015-05-18T01:38:23+00:00

    Picasa is made by Google and is a great program for personal use, but I wouldn't use it in my office.

    Can you tell me what issues you're having in trying to install Picture Manager? I had difficulty too but I managed to get it to install.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-18T01:37:13+00:00

    Yes, Photo Gallery has a "wow" factor and makes, for example, finding photos by face recognition very easy;  however, it lacks many features Picture Manager had - such as re-sizing and sending multiple photos via email.  MS did NOT have end-user in mind by eliminating Picture Manager.

    My guess is that Photo Gallery is designed for tablets and personal use. If you're just showing pictures of your Disneyland vacation to friends, you don't really need to edit them, crop them, etc. Facial recognition is more needed on something like that, too.

    But if you're a business user, you don't care about that. Ironically, MS seems to be ignoring business use and is trying to become "Apple-lite".

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-05-16T13:49:43+00:00

    If you had Office 2010 and Picture Manager installed on the same system that you installed 2013 as an upgrade, it would leave Picture Manager alone, and installed and working, while still upgrading everything else.

    Also, if you own Office 2010, and have the disk to install it, use the custom install, and reject everything except Picture manager, and the system will also prompt you to install the support files that Picture Manager needs when it installs.

    Once you do this, if the file associations got altered, you can go to control Panel and use Default Programs to make any adjustments you need to make on File Associations. 

    Please don't flame me if you already know this, this is only to offer a complete solution, making no assumptions to what anyone knows. 

    Joe

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