If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz comm

"CarolaDubner" wrote in message
...

I'm just a lowly Outlook user, with no financial stake in it's success, but
tonight I missed a really great birthday wish from a friend because I
couldn't see the gif animation in Outlook.

Because Outlook does not show animation is no reason to miss the animation.
Open the message in your web browser and you'll see it.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I agree with Cheryl. It a user pays for a product, shouldn't it be the users
choice to add or keep certain features? I do miss the animations on my email.
I have to use a web based email to view then or other software. As technology
grows, this would be a helpful tool in business and industry.

Give us a add in or something to satisfy the users interested in the
animations.

Henry

"cheryl" wrote:

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

Unfortunately, its not coming back in current versions.

--
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"Henry Elliott" wrote in message
...
I agree with Cheryl. It a user pays for a product, shouldn't it be the
users
choice to add or keep certain features? I do miss the animations on my
email.
I have to use a web based email to view then or other software. As
technology
grows, this would be a helpful tool in business and industry.

Give us a add in or something to satisfy the users interested in the
animations.

Henry

"cheryl" wrote:

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

Correction, FORTUNATELY, it is not coming back in current versions.

Some of us hate it as much as the OP likes it.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
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After furious head scratching, Diane Poremsky [MVP] asked:

| Unfortunately, its not coming back in current versions.
|
|
| "Henry Elliott" wrote in
| message ...
|| I agree with Cheryl. It a user pays for a product, shouldn't it be
|| the users
|| choice to add or keep certain features? I do miss the animations on
|| my email.
|| I have to use a web based email to view then or other software. As
|| technology
|| grows, this would be a helpful tool in business and industry.
||
|| Give us a add in or something to satisfy the users interested in the
|| animations.
||
|| Henry
||
|| "cheryl" wrote:
||
||| 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

Only if they provide a means of blocking e-mails that arrive with them
contained, preferably set as the default.

Henry Elliott wrote:

I agree with Cheryl. It a user pays for a product, shouldn't it be the users
choice to add or keep certain features? I do miss the animations on my email.
I have to use a web based email to view then or other software. As technology
grows, this would be a helpful tool in business and industry.

Give us a add in or something to satisfy the users interested in the
animations.

Henry

"cheryl" wrote:


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