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
    2013-08-12T05:54:49+00:00

    I recently replaced Office 2003 with 2013, but kept the old version on my computer. This worked fine for a while but for no obvious reason my computer started to associate my Excel files with the old version, and however I tried I was unable to get the association to be with the new version. This was a real nuisance as I had added in some new macros which weren't easily available to me in the old version. So I uninstalled Office 2003 and this solved my Excel problem. However it left me without Office Picture Manager which, like many other people posting on this site, I use as my basic picture editor - cropping, auto correcting etc. So I did a custom reinstallation of Office 2003, only installing Publisher. This gave me back Picture Manager, and therefore solved all my Office problems (so far) as the rest of the Office suite on my computer was 2013.

    I did something similar.  I purchased Office 2013 for my new computer but really missed all of the great features of Picture Manager and not real happy about MS removing the Charts and Graphs from Access 2013.  So I installed my Office 2007, leaving Office 2013 on my computer.  I then added the 2007 Access and Picture manager to my task bar at the bottom.  Now I seem to have the best of both worlds; at least for now.  It really would be nice of MS to have a place where the consumers could post the good and not so good about the new versions so MS could come out with updates to resolve the issues.  That would be awesome customer service.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-08-15T10:24:54+00:00

    Am also facing the same dilemna. My users are pretty upset that now we have to use 3rd-party tools.

    Im currently using IrfanView which I hadnt used in donkey years.

    What are other good freeware alternatives for basic features, i,e Red eye reduction, crop etc?

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-08-15T17:30:31+00:00

    There is no dilemma.  As suggested many times previously in this thread simply just:

    1. Download SharePoint Designer 2010  (its free!!)

    2) Advanced install.  Only select Picture Manager

    (or just insert your Office 2010/2007 disc and advance install just picture manager)

    That's all folks!

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