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.

 

[catherized]

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

Word is used to render HTML and it doesn't support ani gifs. I'm not
sure why, some reports say for security reasons, others say it doesn't
because they won't work on printed pages.

 

[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.