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
    2012-07-24T18:55:20+00:00

    Yes, the editing in Word and PowerPoint usually suffice when you are working in them directly.

    I guess I was used to using Picture Manager as my default picture editor/manager since it came with Office already and it looks like more people did not so MS dropped it.  That's a shame.

    I guess I will use MS's cloud solution versus installing someone else.

    The problem I have with that is that MS is dumping Live and changing it so I will have to change all that again soon.

    Everything has to be "cloud" oriented these days...

    Oh well - My trial with Office is going well.  Much better than with Windows 8 Release Preview.  I love the OS, but every time any installation I have running has a power failure, it corrupts, cannot repair it, and has to be completely re-installed. So I have to make sure I have a daily backup or else I have to reinstall Windows 8 every time.

    Thank you for your response!

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-08-01T23:22:04+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!

    Microsoft has made several bad decisions with Office 2013.  The lack of Picture Manager is one of them.  Windows Live Photo Gallery has feature gaps, as does Word and PowerPoint - compared to Picture Manager.  Removing functionality from a product suite will only promote users to stay on the current platform and will help competitors like Google who are looking to jump on Microsoft's mistakes.

    Let MS know how you feel by going into a photo / edit area in PowerPoint or Word - selecting the smiley in the top toolbar and sending them a big frown regarding the lack of Picture Manager.  That form of feedback works for all of the areas of Office that you find feature gaps, or things you like.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-08-03T16:07:07+00:00

    I am also very sad when I realised there is no Picture Manager. It was really quick tool for resize picture for icon on many forums and also a quick tool to make many pictures smaller for sending via e-mail for example.

    I have now turned on Live version and there is also resize option, but I did not find the "make smaller (how to say it... I meam from 2.3MB 500kB for example) option" :(

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