gif not animated in new message--what else could be wrong?

[Guest]

First--yes, I have searched for answer here (and elsewhere) & still need help.

Never had this problem with older program--I recently installed Office 2003.
Now my gifs, when inserted into a new Outlook email message are not
animated. Have double checked gif on its own--all are animated when viewed
with Picture & Fax Viewer.

E-mail is set to HTML. All gifs are stored into new hard-drive "D". Could
this somehow be problem? Or, is there some setting I've turned off by
mistake?

I am frustrated from trying to find an answer. Thank you in advance for
helping me.

 

[Brian Tillman]

First--yes, I have searched for answer here (and elsewhere) & still
need help.

You must not have look too hard, as the question has been asked and answered
before.

Never had this problem with older program--I recently installed
Office 2003. Now my gifs, when inserted into a new Outlook email
message are not
animated. Have double checked gif on its own--all are animated when
viewed with Picture & Fax Viewer.

You won't see the animation, but your recipient will. Outlook won't show
the anomation in the compse window.

 

[Guest]

Brian: You wrote: < You must not have look too hard, as the question has
been asked and answered before.>

Excuse me, I may not be as experienced in searching as you or others, but I
DID spend quite a bit of time looking for and reading posts & answers
pertaining to gif inserts.

I did NOT read, however, that evidently Outlook 2003 does not offer the
feature of having the gif's animation appear in the originating e-mail. This
makes no sense to me as to why Microsoft would change this from the previous
Outlook edition, as one would think the sender would like to see their e-mail
appear exactly as the recipient would see it.

So, thank you for teaching me about what I think is a strange quirk in the
new 2003 version.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I did NOT read, however, that evidently Outlook 2003 does not offer
the feature of having the gif's animation appear in the originating
e-mail. This makes no sense to me as to why Microsoft would change
this from the previous Outlook edition, as one would think the sender
would like to see their e-mail appear exactly as the recipient would
see it.

To the best of my knowledge, Microsoft did not change this. I don't recall
any version of Outlook showing animation in the Compose window. Outlook
Express did, though, I believe.

 

[Guest]

Brian, you are wrong. It has always worked for me in outlook. Currently I
am having the same problem, because my system crashed and I had to reload the
OS. It is the same OS that was on my computer, so there is a setting
somewhere that allows .gifs to run when embedded in email.

 

[Guest]

Here's how to fix it. Do not use Word as your email editor. Go to options,
mail format, and uncheck "Use microsoft word to edit email messages". Then
Insert your .gif and It should work.

 

[Guest]

Hello Richard! THANK YOU!! Your suggestion is CORRECT & now the gif's are
working! Something so simple, too. I spent so much time here & on the
Microsoft help area searchng to find the answer. Glad you read my post.

 

[Guest]

No problem, some folks on here think they know it all. I bet someone is
inserting foot in mouth right now! Ha! Have a good one!

 

[Guest]

I have not requested that I get a notification for this message, but just got
one. Does anyone have any idea why that happened? I generally don't even
review the Outlook Newsgroups.

Thanks in advance,
Barb Reinhardt

 

[Brian Tillman]

Brian, you are wrong. It has always worked for me in outlook.

I could be. I've seen many posts here stating it doesn't, so I based what I
said on that. Frankly, I'd never subject my recipients to anything as
juvenile as animated GIFs.

 

[Guest]

No, you would rather subject posters looking for legitimate information to
your juvenile responses.

 

[Brian Tillman]

No, you would rather subject posters looking for legitimate
information to your juvenile responses.

Ha, ha! You're funny!

 

[Guest]

Richard: Once again, I gladly say THANK YOU for taking the time to respond
to Tillman's pompous response to gif's in e-mails being "juvenile". Rudeness
seems to be his favorite tone of voice. This was the 1st time I ever posted
on Microsoft to ask for help and I got a snippy answer from the get-go. I do
not know why he feels he must be condescending while attempting to offer
advice! What possesses him to act like this? Gee..let's guess...LOL

You have a lovely evening. CB

 

[Brian Tillman]

This
was the 1st time I ever posted on Microsoft to ask for help and I got
a snippy answer from the get-go.

Tell me. What information for a animation convey in a mail message?
Usually nothing, although if it's a tutorial on how to accomplish something,
a short movie showing the steps would certainly be a good idea. Anomated
GIFs are too small to ever be of use in this regard, so they're worthless
for conveying information. The only thing the accomplish is to add a huge
amount of useless junk to a message. I wasn't rude. I was practical.
Moreover I said that "I" would never do it, as I consider animated GIFs to
be juvenile. You can do what you wish. Feel free to add my address to your
killfile.

 

[Guest]

I did what you said below but whenever I insert a .gif it still basically
turns into a .bmp

Any other ideas??

 

[JPR]

I think the pull down menu's are a little different in Outlook 2007. When I
go to options, mail format, I do not have the "Use microsoft word to edit
email messages" as an option. Any ideas?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I think the pull down menu's are a little different in Outlook 2007. When I
go to options, mail format, I do not have the "Use microsoft word to edit
email messages" as an option. Any ideas?

With Outlook 2007, Word will ALWAYS be used to edit your messages. It's the
only editor in that version.