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  #1  
Old December 8th, 2006, 08:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Cheryl
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Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz comm

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
  #2  
Old December 8th, 2006, 08:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Patrick Schmid [MVP]
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Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz comm

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]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

"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


  #3  
Old December 8th, 2006, 09:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Cheryl
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Posts: 364
Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz

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]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

"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



  #4  
Old December 8th, 2006, 10:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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Posts: 6,006
Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz

In other words, if we agree, respond, if not, then shut up????

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

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]
|| --------------
|| http://pschmid.net
|| ***
|| Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
|| Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
|| http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
|| ***
|| Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
|| RibbonCustomizer Add-In:
|| http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer OneNote 2007:
|| http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote ***
|| Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed
||
|| "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
  #5  
Old December 8th, 2006, 10:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Cheryl
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Posts: 364
Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz

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????

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

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]
|| --------------
|| http://pschmid.net
|| ***
|| Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
|| Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
|| http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
|| ***
|| Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
|| RibbonCustomizer Add-In:
|| http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer OneNote 2007:
|| http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote ***
|| Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed
||
|| "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

  #6  
Old December 8th, 2006, 11:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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Posts: 6,006
Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz

Just as you reserve the right to ask Microsoft to put a useless (IMO) feature back into Outlook and reopen security exposures, I reserve the right to respond to your request and say to Microsoft, no, don't bend to the pressure of people who don't get security and want a feature that adds nothing to email except holes for hackers to exploit.

I get to voice my opinion too, as I also get to pick where it appears. Sorry if that is not on your agenda.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, cheryl asked:

| 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????
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| 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]
|||| --------------
|||| http://pschmid.net
|||| ***
|||| Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
|||| Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
|||| http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
|||| ***
|||| Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
|||| RibbonCustomizer Add-In:
|||| http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer OneNote 2007:
|||| http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote ***
|||| Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed
||||
|||| "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
  #7  
Old December 8th, 2006, 11:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Patrick Schmid [MVP]
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Posts: 1,784
Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz

Well, with such a lovely response, why don't I share my personal opinion
about the missing GIF animation support?
I am *glad* that's gone. Now finally spam email doesn't go crazy in
front of my eyes anymore!
In addition, no one is going to try to find an exploit to inject some
malicious code into my computer as the GIF is being animated.
And last but not least, I have had a very pleasant email reading
experience since I started using Outlook 2007 a year ago. No more
jumping figures, crazily overdone picture backgrounds, etc.


Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

"cheryl" wrote in message
news
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]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

"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




  #8  
Old December 9th, 2006, 12:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Cheryl
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Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz

Well, this was certainly a waste of time. One would think no one ever heard
of Kapersky, or AVG.

The only viruses ever captured by those two programs to Outlook have been
worms in attachments, nothing ever from an picture file.

Well, thanks community for all your support. Have a terrific Christmas.

Cheryl

Note: Don't bother responding, I've quit the thread and am considering the
purchase of a MAC.



"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:

Well, with such a lovely response, why don't I share my personal opinion
about the missing GIF animation support?
I am *glad* that's gone. Now finally spam email doesn't go crazy in
front of my eyes anymore!
In addition, no one is going to try to find an exploit to inject some
malicious code into my computer as the GIF is being animated.
And last but not least, I have had a very pleasant email reading
experience since I started using Outlook 2007 a year ago. No more
jumping figures, crazily overdone picture backgrounds, etc.


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"cheryl" wrote in message
news
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!

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--------------
http://pschmid.net
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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




  #9  
Old December 9th, 2006, 12:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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Posts: 6,006
Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz

You already have a MAC (ever connected device has one), or did you mean Mac?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, cheryl asked:

| Well, this was certainly a waste of time. One would think no one
| ever heard of Kapersky, or AVG.
|
| The only viruses ever captured by those two programs to Outlook have
| been worms in attachments, nothing ever from an picture file.
|
| Well, thanks community for all your support. Have a terrific
| Christmas.
|
| Cheryl
|
| Note: Don't bother responding, I've quit the thread and am
| considering the purchase of a MAC.
|
|
|
| "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| Well, with such a lovely response, why don't I share my personal
|| opinion about the missing GIF animation support?
|| I am *glad* that's gone. Now finally spam email doesn't go crazy in
|| front of my eyes anymore!
|| In addition, no one is going to try to find an exploit to inject some
|| malicious code into my computer as the GIF is being animated.
|| And last but not least, I have had a very pleasant email reading
|| experience since I started using Outlook 2007 a year ago. No more
|| jumping figures, crazily overdone picture backgrounds, etc.
||
||
|| Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
|| --------------
|| http://pschmid.net
|| ***
|| Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
|| Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
|| http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
|| ***
|| Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
|| RibbonCustomizer Add-In:
|| http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer OneNote 2007:
|| http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote ***
|| Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed
||
|| "cheryl" wrote in message
|| news ||
||| 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]
|||| --------------
|||| http://pschmid.net
|||| ***
|||| Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
|||| Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
|||| http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
|||| ***
|||| Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
|||| RibbonCustomizer Add-In:
|||| http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer OneNote 2007:
|||| http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote ***
|||| Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed
||||
|||| "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
  #10  
Old December 9th, 2006, 12:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Patrick Schmid [MVP]
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Posts: 1,784
Default If you miss gif support in Microsoft Office 2007 Outlook, plz

That images can be a security thread should be known after
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS06-001.mspx

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
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RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
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***
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"cheryl" wrote in message
:

Well, this was certainly a waste of time. One would think no one ever heard
of Kapersky, or AVG.

The only viruses ever captured by those two programs to Outlook have been
worms in attachments, nothing ever from an picture file.

Well, thanks community for all your support. Have a terrific Christmas.

Cheryl

Note: Don't bother responding, I've quit the thread and am considering the
purchase of a MAC.



"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:

Well, with such a lovely response, why don't I share my personal opinion
about the missing GIF animation support?
I am *glad* that's gone. Now finally spam email doesn't go crazy in
front of my eyes anymore!
In addition, no one is going to try to find an exploit to inject some
malicious code into my computer as the GIF is being animated.
And last but not least, I have had a very pleasant email reading
experience since I started using Outlook 2007 a year ago. No more
jumping figures, crazily overdone picture backgrounds, etc.


Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

"cheryl" wrote in message
news
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]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

"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





 




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