This is supposed to be an intellectual community......
No Milly, if you agree, add something to the effect, "Yes Microsoft, please
support animations and video in your new Office release".
If you don't agree, don't bother bashing the author that's just trying to
get the community to speak out for something they might want from MS. If you
don't agree, or care, move on to a thread where you may get something
accomplished that you want, or can contribute to.
Thanks for your input Milly, have a great w/e.
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
In other words, if we agree, respond, if not, then shut up????
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After furious head scratching, cheryl asked:
| Patrick, I don't wish to get into an argument with anyone. I do not
| know everything about everything.
|
| That being said, Office does not work as it did, or as I'd like it to.
| Microsoft wrote the program, Microsoft can once again make features
| functional should the interest dictate that.
|
| So, instead of correcting me, you could have, if in favor of my
| conclusions added your support, if not in favor, just move on to
| another topic.
|
| Thanks for your time, have a great w/e.
|
| Cheryl
|
| "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| An MVP is a user like you, not an employee of Microsoft. Please don't
|| blame us for things that don't work the way you want it, because we
|| don't make the product!
||
|| Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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|| "cheryl" wrote in message
|| :
||
||| Microsoft no longer supports the anmation file format "GIF" in
||| their new Office Suite. I have noticed it doesn't function in
||| Outlook and I expect it won't function in Word either.
|||
||| It was explained to me the Microsoft Office 2007 was designed with
||| the business user in mind and this group suggested the
||| functionality of "GIF's" and I am guessing "SWF's" and similar
||| files be disabled.
|||
||| I submitted that Dell, Gateway and other manufacturers of hardware
||| promote Microsoft Office as suite of choice and therefore it is in
||| many homes across the world.
|||
||| With all this in mind, if you would wish to see Gif's, Swf's and
||| other HTML file formats supported in Word and Outlook, please tell
||| Microsoft. Reply to this thread, post incident reports, or begin
||| your own thread.
|||
||| Thank you for your support.
|||
||| Cheryl
|||
||| Microsoft's MVP response to my initial query as to why GIF's were
||| not animated in the 2007 version of Office....
|||
||| Why? Two reasons: security and simplicity. Microsoft has shifted the
||| rendering engine for Outlook mail messages from Internet Explorer
||| to Word, a decision likely to please security-conscious
||| administrators and users everywhere. Consolidating the rendering of
||| all formats of Outlook messages into one engine, Word, greatly
||| improves both general support for the mail editor/reader and
||| extensibility. As part of that process, decisions had to be made on
||| what level of HTML support to provide, given the resources
||| available in the Office 2007 product development cycle. More
||| consistent CSS support made the cut; animated GIFs apparently
||| didn't, perhaps because of technical limitations related to the use
||| of Word as the rendering engine rather than IE.
|||
||| You can make a suggestion via this community forums web site that
||| Microsoft restore animated GIF support in a future update for
||| Outlook 2007. Or, you can file a formal support incident with
||| Microsoft. Either way, I would not expect this decision to change
||| unless there is a vast groundswell of opinion from Microsoft
||| customers. Animated GIFs seem relatively low on the list of
||| features that most users want to see in Outlook. I personally will
||| not miss them at all.
|||
||| --
||| Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
||| Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
||| http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
||| and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
||| Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
||| http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx