Animated .gifs not animated

[Hapkido]

I really like Outlook 2007!! But, there is one thing which I find
disappointing. Animated .gif files, e.g., "Smileys, Emoticons" in the body
of a message are displayed as being static, i.e., no animation. Is there a
way to change this so the animation works? And, if it makes any difference,
this is on a Vista Ultimate machine.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, there is no way to change that.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Hapkido]

Thanks Sue for the quick reply, although the answer isn't what I had hoped,
albeit expected.

No, there is no way to change that.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Alfred Kaufmann]

They took out sound in the name of security, why did they they take
out animated pictures? Just lazy programmers that could not be
bothered? I see that they still allow us to send out animations even
though we can't see them.

Maybe the next upgrade will take out all pictures and then ...
colours?

Al

 

[Peter Foldes]

It was removed for Security reasons. You are better off

 

[Peter Foldes]

Sorry . I should have said that it was removed from Office 2007 for security reasons

 

[Alfred Kaufmann]

Sorry . I should have said that it was removed from Office 2007 for security reasons

Too many companies just use that as an excuse to justify their poor
performance. If e-mail can display one picture without security
concerns, then it can display a series of pictures, which is another
name for an animated picture.

If some people want to live in a plain text world they can chose that
option and let the rest of us enjoy animations and sound with our
e-mail.

Al