{"id":513,"date":"2019-06-11T12:26:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:42:43","slug":"deleting-duplicate-images-in-microsoft-office-picture-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/deleting-duplicate-images-in-microsoft-office-picture-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleting Duplicate Images in Microsoft Office Picture Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Microsoft Office Picture Manager<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a raster graphics editing utility that enables users to easily edit (and even create) images using the computer and save them in any format they feel like. It was introduced in <\/span><b>Microsoft Office 2003<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and continued to be on the shelves uptil <\/span><b>Office 2010<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It was replaced by <\/span><b>Microsoft Photos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the advent of <\/span><b>Office 2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides a multitude of image editing features such as edit, crop, resize, rotate, and so on. It is these features which have made it a favorite of the target market. Microsoft Office Picture Manager allows convenient sharing of the images via email as well as directly with <\/span><b>Word<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Excel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>PowerPoint<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Delete Duplicate Images<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will be looking in detail at a couple of methods that can easily help us sniff out and eradicate duplicate images without any hard work. The purpose is to recover storage space that had been lost to duplicate images for productive usage, as well as remove data clutter and congestion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Windows Thumbnail Viewer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the most basic and no-nonsense kind of tool you can deploy to look for duplicate images. This method uses the default image viewing utility of <\/span><b>Windows<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and tinkers it to get optimum results. The whole process is very easy to perform and guarantees excellent results. However, one significant downside of this method is that it leaves it all to the user. The user must carefully examine every single image, detect the duplicates visually and then kill them off. It is a highly user-driven task and requires the user to put up their highest level of concentration at all times.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simply open up the target location of the suspect duplicate images.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right-click on an empty area, point to <\/span><b>View<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and select <\/span><b>Large icons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now you will be viewing all the images by their thumbnails, and can easily spot all duplicates with great ease. Now hold down the <\/span><b>Ctrl<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> key and click the left mouse button on each image you want to select. Finally, hit the <\/span><b>Shift<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> + <\/span><b>Delete<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shortcut combination to purge the duplicate images once you\u2019re done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>PictureEcho<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a purpose-built app built to scan, detect and delete duplicate images. This whole task might seem a lot daunting to you, but <\/span><b>PictureEcho<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> makes it look so easy and yet it performs a perfect cleanup of all the duplicate images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It supports scanning the most popular image extensions of these days. And not just duplicate images, PictureEcho also scans for similar images by guaranteeing the same level of expertise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureecho.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Download<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> PictureEcho today and clean up duplicate images.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Install PictureEcho and then launch it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the <\/span><b>Add Path<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> button and use the <\/span><b>Browse for Folder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> window to navigate to all the location(s) which you want to scan for duplicate images.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click <\/span><b>OK<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> once you\u2019ve selected the correct location, to add it into the scan area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the <\/span><b>Exact Match<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> radio box as well as the <\/span><b>Show Preview<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> checkbox, so that you can easily view the preview for each image right in the user interface once the scan is over.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-514\" src=\"http:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/222-300x82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/222-300x82.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/222-80x22.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/222.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that you\u2019re all set, click <\/span><b>Start Search<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to launch the scan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the scan concludes, you will notice the duplicates populate the user interface. Check out the footer of PictureEcho for comprehensive info on the scan results such as duplicate groups detected, total wasted space etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now you have to select the images for further action. You can either select them manually by clicking the checkbox before each image or click the <\/span><b>Select Duplicates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> button and choose your favorite option from the 7 options that are available.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final step requires you to click <\/span><b>Select Action<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and choose between <\/span><b>Permanent Delete<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Move to Folder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b><i>Tip:<\/i><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you want to view videos about specific features of PictureEcho, click the <\/span><b>Help<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> link in the bottom and then select the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureecho.com\/video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Video Tutorial<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> section in the next window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s it. Cleaning up duplicate images from <\/span><b>Microsoft Office Picture Manager<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is this easy and simple with PictureEcho.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a raster graphics editing utility that enables users to easily edit (and even create) images using the computer and save them in any format they feel like. It was introduced in Microsoft Office 2003 and continued to be on the shelves uptil Office 2010. 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