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Resolved Inserting animated gif files into email.

Discussion in 'Microsoft Mail (Outlook / OE / Windows Mail)' started by Alicia J, 2010/06/24.

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    Alicia J Lifetime Subscription

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    I would like to insert an animated gif file into an email in Outlook 2010. How do I go about doing that?
     
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    I would not be sure that you can do this - apparently animated gifs. were not supported in Outlook 2007 and I can find no reference to Outlook 2010 in this respect.
     
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    See this article.

    Outlook 2007 & 2010 don't support GIFs:

    All previous versions of Outlook used the Internet Explorer engine for HTML email. The IE engine was removed from 2007+ and Outlook uses Word only for HTML composition and viewing. In essence, non-standard HTML email, though other image formats can be used.
     
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    Thank you for the information Pete and Tony. Looks like viewing in browser is the best option for emails received with gif, but there's no easy way to attach a gif file in Outlook 2010. :(
     
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