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
    2013-04-20T08:03:30+00:00

    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.

    I've managed to install Picture Manager by opting to do a custom install from an old 2010 Office suite.

    I didn't actually have the 2010 disk, but there's an online work around that worked a charm for me.

    I now have my beloved Picture manager back up and running on a Windows 8 / Office 2013 PC.

    \o/ yay.

    http://www.askvg.com/how-to-install-and-get-microsoft-office-picture-manager-back-in-office-2013/

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-04-22T20:01:45+00:00

    GIVE ME BACK Microsoft Picture Manager!  Immediately!

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-04-22T20:24:03+00:00

    Okay I tried all the other "alternatives" in 2013 Office for picture management.  NONE of them even comes close to what we had with Microsoft Picture Manager.  We should be able to keep the 2010 Microsoft Picture Manager even if we otherwise upgrade to 2013.  Not very happy with 2013 so far.  The only cool aspect is the SKYDRIVE....but that could be accomplished other ways.  Please provide instructions for re-installing ONLY Microsoft Picture Manager 2010 and leaving the other programs upgraded to 2013. Thanks! AMM

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