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!

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Windows

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments
Answer accepted by question author
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"

Was this answer helpful?

100+ people found this answer helpful.
0 comments
Answer accepted by question author
Anonymous
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!

Was this answer helpful?

50+ people found this answer helpful.
0 comments

711 additional answers

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2014-12-06T15:04:10+00:00

    I was going to use your work around, but I am not very computer liberate, and I was worried about updates.  After using MS Office 2013 for a while, I really didn't like it.  So I solved these two problems by uninstalling the 2013 and installing the 2010.

    Thanks for all that you share with us.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-06T05:55:01+00:00

    ...snip.

    Then... the first couple of posts when this whole thread started... "Use Microsoft Word"... I was like... are they on drugs? Totally missed the point of a batch process. It's like the departments just completely do not communicate.

    ...snip....

    I hope they actually start to take notice to forums like this... seriously.

    Jerry

    I do hope that they are noticing this forum, and as you say, it would be an easy job for them to re-skin OPM.

    I have to confess though, that I had not realised there was a batch mode in OPM till I saw it referred to in this forum by you or one of the others here. I've passed it on to a couple of dozen colleagues who are blown away by the feature (and the fact that none of us knew it existed!)  I use it all the time now.

    Neil

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-06T04:21:32+00:00

    Ok point taken.

    It's late enough in the year that Microsoft is probably about to release the next version anyway... so for the few still fighting this hopefully they will learn to read the posts. (Try researching a CNC issue in a machining forum... sometimes you go back 2 or 3 YEARS.)

    Anyway... yeah, real idiotic move on Microsoft's part to tout Picture Manager as the end-all do-all graphics conversion package, get it to the top of virtually EVERY search engine... then just go, "Eh" and not include it just because the "look" of the program doesn't match the current "feel".

    Frankly... I don't care what it looks like if it works. And additionally... they could have assigned it to a team and had it re-skinned in a couple of days honestly.

    Then... the first couple of posts when this whole thread started... "Use Microsoft Word"... I was like... are they on drugs? Totally missed the point of a batch process. It's like the departments just completely do not communicate.

    I hear tell they are gearing up to do major revisions to VBA... they have already botched up the Dialogue box... you have to do some hokey work-around using the IE interface... if they botch it to where the VBA routines fail... there are going to be a HUGE number of companies either refusing to upgrade, or flat dropping the package. (I had to rework about 40 spreadsheets and redo the interfaces... I can't imagine some larger companies.)

    I hope they actually start to take notice to forums like this... seriously.

    Jerry

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments