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
    2013-09-21T20:51:08+00:00

    For years I have been installing the Photo Editor from Office XP in addition to whatever newer Office I had on my machine. The Photo Editor had many features that were missing in the Picture Manager -- though I did use the Picture Manager as my default viewer and editor. I see that the Picture Manager is gone now and something unfamiliar and possibly even less capable has replaced it. Ugh! Now I am going to have several tools installed. I'm so excited. It seems to me if you want stability in your platform, you'll not get it with Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-09-21T15:45:17+00:00

    Further on my earlier post, I would be interested to know what was the trigger for the decision to omit Picture Manager from Office 2013. Were there complaints from users? What drives these types of decisions?

    Hi MoriFlapan,

    I would be curious to know if you get an answer to your question.  Let me know.

      -John

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-21T15:41:45+00:00

    Hi Robert,

    I did try Windows LIve Photo Gallery and found it to be pretty lame by comparison to Office Picture Manager.  I also tried using Windows Explorer to manage my photos, which was OK smaller jobs.  One thing I do with my photos to organize them is use the bulk renaming feature in Office Picture Manager - a very flexible tool, nothing like it in Explorer or Gallery.

    Anyway, I have dumped Office 2013 entirely and reverted to Office 2010 which overall just works better.  Also, word 2010 is faster than 2013, which was very laggy on my computer.  

    One complaint I have with Office 2013 and Windows-8 is that Microsoft has sacrificed functionality and clarity in an attempt to put spanky new window dressings on things.  The result is programs that are harder to see and use.  My guess is that research done in the 1990's produced XP and Office 2003 optimized for ease of use, intuitiveness and clarity.  So how do you improve on that?

    Anyway, here is hoping Microsoft will return to it's roots.  Please let me know when it does.

      -John

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