How to I add animated graphics to my emails?

[JSS]

I can't insert animated graphics into my emails since going to 2007. Anyone
know how I can do it?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I can't insert animated graphics into my emails since going to 2007.
Anyone know how I can do it?

You can't.

Well, technically, you can insert them, Outlook just won't animate them.

 

[JSS]

WHY?!?!?!?!? Boy, THAT makes my "Happy Friday" emails much less popular.
What was the reason? security risks?

 

[VanguardLH]

WHY?!?!?!?!? Boy, THAT makes my "Happy Friday" emails much less popular.
What was the reason? security risks?

We are to GUESS at to *which* version of Outlook that you use? Or what
e-mail clients that your recipients use?

For OL2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011210011033.aspx

But in OL2007:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102014391033.aspx?pid=CH100776981033

Why the change? Go ask Microsoft. We're just a bunch of users here in
a peer community for a Usenet newsgroup.

So create a test e-mail, send it to yourself, and see what it looks like
to you. If you want to see what your recipients see then you'll have to
use their e-mail client(s) to test. Tried that yet?

Different e-mail clients are different for a reason. Don't expect what
you see when composing an e-mail to be what your recipient sees, not
even when using HTML format to compose your e-mail. Plain text always
looks the same and your attachments will look the way you want provided
the recipient has the necessary program to handle its filetype.

 

[Pat Willener]

Yes, security reason. Also, there are lots of people (like me) who
really don't care to receive mail with animated images or other "cute"
stuff.