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

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

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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
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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!
||||
|||| 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
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|||| 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

Hi..

Why should we always BEG to microsoft to enable Features, they tend to
disable or cancle features what ever and when ever they like, first it
was java to be opted out of XP that the JVM was used after people
requested, No its a small thingi GIF....

what ever MS thinks wether Security Threat or what ever you think its
annoying ... Why dont they give an on/off selection Which Willingly
People can Select as they Want, not what anyone else's judgements are
and we are forced to be follow....

GIF means Animated, SWF means Animations.....

By disabling U simplying telling that Animation is OUT..... JPEG s also
threat as most of Image viruses use this Format.... why dot you stop
support for this tooooo...

This is called MS way... If you dont have a solution simply say... its
security threat and we discontinue support...

hear this MS .... That we have other options too....

Lotus SmartSuite, Openoffice, etc they are cheap and some free...they
all support GIF's and SWF, they dont consider these as Security
threats, You have Windows and OFFICE both created by you and still you
cant Tightly integrate these too to take care of security????....


And none of them make us beg to continue features which have been there
since ages....

I will defiantly not like anyone dictate me what they think and make me
follow....

I will look into the options and yes if MS continues to behave like
this then I will be the First person in the line to STOP using MS
products...


and start using other products.....

This is in no way a threat to MS but yes its and advise to them that
STOP TAKING PEOPLE FOR GRANTED.....


MS has tried best to give us a beautiful product as in shape of OFFICE
2007 and to a much extend they have succeeded in doing so... but FACT
is that I will not upgrade to 2007 if they tend to stop me from using
my kinda options and preferences.....


Maybe in Final product they give support for this animations...

thanx

BICKY..

SORRY for anything/matter if some finds it offensive...




cheryl wrote:
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]
|| --------------
|| 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

The final product has been out for weeks. It doesn't support animations in email messages.

--
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

"Bicky" wrote in message ups.com...

Maybe in Final product they give support for this animations...

I too am disapointed in the lack of GIF support in Word. I grow weary of the
weight given to "business concerns" in a world in which mere people and their
requirements (requests) are given short shrift by businesses as well as
government.

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window along with the plethora of other options offered. As to
security, I suspect that it is the least of the multitude of pathways into
the inner workings of the personal computer -- but surely no greater threat.

"Resources available" is a catchall phrase meaning money, people, knowledge,
and willingness. I agree that this is a step backward in usefulness for
Outlook. I opted out of Outlook Express due to the frequent frustration I had
with it, and its limited abilities. The term "business requirements" is
being interpreted in a limited way. I know of several businesses that
interpret that term as meaing "what would we use a computer for?".
Thankfully that is not the generally accepted idea either.

Perhaps the powers that be should consider that the same home computer that
is used for business communication is also often used to send personal
communications such as animated Christmas and other holiday cards to families
with children and child-like adults (like myself) G.

--
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA


"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

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window

Providing such an option would do no good if the capability of rendering animations weren't already in the rendering engine. Adding that kind of functionality is not a trivial programming task.

Outlook 2007 users who want to see animations still have the option of viewing the email messages in their browsers.
--
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

"NES" wrote in message ...
I too am disapointed in the lack of GIF support in Word. I grow weary of the
weight given to "business concerns" in a world in which mere people and their
requirements (requests) are given short shrift by businesses as well as
government.

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window along with the plethora of other options offered. As to
security, I suspect that it is the least of the multitude of pathways into
the inner workings of the personal computer -- but surely no greater threat.

"Resources available" is a catchall phrase meaning money, people, knowledge,
and willingness. I agree that this is a step backward in usefulness for
Outlook. I opted out of Outlook Express due to the frequent frustration I had
with it, and its limited abilities. The term "business requirements" is
being interpreted in a limited way. I know of several businesses that
interpret that term as meaing "what would we use a computer for?".
Thankfully that is not the generally accepted idea either.

Perhaps the powers that be should consider that the same home computer that
is used for business communication is also often used to send personal
communications such as animated Christmas and other holiday cards to families
with children and child-like adults (like myself) G.

I'm sorry, Sue. Perhaps I'm incorrect. But I recall using Outlook when I
worked at a local college in 2004, and I created e-mail with animated GIFs
that worked when I sent them to others as well as those I sent to myself to
test them.

If the functionality is no longer there, then I'm assuming it was removed.
My previous message was in regard to MS having removed it rather than giving
us the option to use it. Therefore including it in the options window would
be easy. Sorry for the lack of clarity in my message.
--
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window

Providing such an option would do no good if the capability of rendering animations weren't already in the rendering engine. Adding that kind of functionality is not a trivial programming task.

Outlook 2007 users who want to see animations still have the option of viewing the email messages in their browsers.
--
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

"NES" wrote in message ...
I too am disapointed in the lack of GIF support in Word. I grow weary of the
weight given to "business concerns" in a world in which mere people and their
requirements (requests) are given short shrift by businesses as well as
government.

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window along with the plethora of other options offered. As to
security, I suspect that it is the least of the multitude of pathways into
the inner workings of the personal computer -- but surely no greater threat.

"Resources available" is a catchall phrase meaning money, people, knowledge,
and willingness. I agree that this is a step backward in usefulness for
Outlook. I opted out of Outlook Express due to the frequent frustration I had
with it, and its limited abilities. The term "business requirements" is
being interpreted in a limited way. I know of several businesses that
interpret that term as meaing "what would we use a computer for?".
Thankfully that is not the generally accepted idea either.

Perhaps the powers that be should consider that the same home computer that
is used for business communication is also often used to send personal
communications such as animated Christmas and other holiday cards to families
with children and child-like adults (like myself) G.

Office 2007 removed the dependence on Internet Explorer as the rendering engine for HTML messages (and Word documents) and built an entirely new rendering engine. It is this new rendering engine that does not support animations.

It is not so much that the feature was removed as that an entire -- huge! -- portion of the application was replaced with a completely new component.

--
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

"NES" wrote in message ...
I'm sorry, Sue. Perhaps I'm incorrect. But I recall using Outlook when I
worked at a local college in 2004, and I created e-mail with animated GIFs
that worked when I sent them to others as well as those I sent to myself to
test them.

If the functionality is no longer there, then I'm assuming it was removed.
My previous message was in regard to MS having removed it rather than giving
us the option to use it. Therefore including it in the options window would
be easy. Sorry for the lack of clarity in my message.
--
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window

Providing such an option would do no good if the capability of rendering animations weren't already in the rendering engine. Adding that kind of functionality is not a trivial programming task.

Outlook 2007 users who want to see animations still have the option of viewing the email messages in their browsers.


"NES" wrote in message ...
I too am disapointed in the lack of GIF support in Word. I grow weary of the
weight given to "business concerns" in a world in which mere people and their
requirements (requests) are given short shrift by businesses as well as
government.

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window along with the plethora of other options offered. As to
security, I suspect that it is the least of the multitude of pathways into
the inner workings of the personal computer -- but surely no greater threat.

"Resources available" is a catchall phrase meaning money, people, knowledge,
and willingness. I agree that this is a step backward in usefulness for
Outlook. I opted out of Outlook Express due to the frequent frustration I had
with it, and its limited abilities. The term "business requirements" is
being interpreted in a limited way. I know of several businesses that
interpret that term as meaing "what would we use a computer for?".
Thankfully that is not the generally accepted idea either.

Perhaps the powers that be should consider that the same home computer that
is used for business communication is also often used to send personal
communications such as animated Christmas and other holiday cards to families
with children and child-like adults (like myself) G.

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:

Office 2007 removed the dependence on Internet Explorer as the
rendering engine for HTML messages (and Word documents) and built an
entirely new rendering engine. It is this new rendering engine that
does not support animations.

It is not so much that the feature was removed as that an entire --
huge! -- portion of the application was replaced with a completely
new component.

While I accept your explanation, it seems to me that including a native
rendering engine would take up heaps MORE code than requesting assistance
from another application that already contains that code. In the latter
case, it seems a matter of setting up interfaces, handing off the work, then
accepting the results, as opposed to doing all the work natively.
--
Brian Tillman

Doing it natively, though, means that the considerable issues of HTML security (among other issues related to HTML rendering) are all contained within one application, rather than being dependent on a different application with its own priorities.

--
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

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message ...
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:

Office 2007 removed the dependence on Internet Explorer as the
rendering engine for HTML messages (and Word documents) and built an
entirely new rendering engine. It is this new rendering engine that
does not support animations.

It is not so much that the feature was removed as that an entire --
huge! -- portion of the application was replaced with a completely
new component.

While I accept your explanation, it seems to me that including a native
rendering engine would take up heaps MORE code than requesting assistance
from another application that already contains that code. In the latter
case, it seems a matter of setting up interfaces, handing off the work, then
accepting the results, as opposed to doing all the work natively.
--
Brian Tillman

It's really not that simple. Outlook used to use Internet Explorer to
render those animated GIFs. In 2007, it doesn't use IE anymore, but a
different engine (one from Word). So it is not about MS having removed a
feature, it is about MS having switched to a different rendering engine
that never had this feature. So you are not talking about simply putting
a feature back, but you are talking about implementing a new feature.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
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Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
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***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
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"NES" wrote in message
:

I'm sorry, Sue. Perhaps I'm incorrect. But I recall using Outlook when I
worked at a local college in 2004, and I created e-mail with animated GIFs
that worked when I sent them to others as well as those I sent to myself to
test them.

If the functionality is no longer there, then I'm assuming it was removed.
My previous message was in regard to MS having removed it rather than giving
us the option to use it. Therefore including it in the options window would
be easy. Sorry for the lack of clarity in my message.
--
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window

Providing such an option would do no good if the capability of rendering animations weren't already in the rendering engine. Adding that kind of functionality is not a trivial programming task.

Outlook 2007 users who want to see animations still have the option of viewing the email messages in their browsers.
--
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

"NES" wrote in message ...
I too am disapointed in the lack of GIF support in Word. I grow weary of the
weight given to "business concerns" in a world in which mere people and their
requirements (requests) are given short shrift by businesses as well as
government.

The option to view animation could surely have been included in the TOOLS |
OPTIONS | VIEW window along with the plethora of other options offered. As to
security, I suspect that it is the least of the multitude of pathways into
the inner workings of the personal computer -- but surely no greater threat.

"Resources available" is a catchall phrase meaning money, people, knowledge,
and willingness. I agree that this is a step backward in usefulness for
Outlook. I opted out of Outlook Express due to the frequent frustration I had
with it, and its limited abilities. The term "business requirements" is
being interpreted in a limited way. I know of several businesses that
interpret that term as meaing "what would we use a computer for?".
Thankfully that is not the generally accepted idea either.

Perhaps the powers that be should consider that the same home computer that
is used for business communication is also often used to send personal
communications such as animated Christmas and other holiday cards to families
with children and child-like adults (like myself) G.