Animated Gifs in Windows Live mail?

[MARGIE]

HI THERE
I AM NEW TO THIS TYPE OF HELP AND NEW TO WINDOWS7 WHAT I AM FINDING IS IT IS HARD TO GET SUPPORT FROM ANYONE OR TO CONTACT MICROSOFT I RANG THEM BUT NONE OF THE OPTIONS THEY OFFERED ME SUITED MY PROBLEM, ANYWAY THIS IS MY PROBLEM I AM USING WINDOWS LIVE MAIL, WHEN I TRY TO PUT A GIF FILE INTO THE BODY OF MY EMAIL IT DOES NOT SHOW THE ANIMATION, COULD ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I AM DOING WRONG I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM AT ALL IN WINDOWS MAIL BUT THIS ONE LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED I THINK IF IT AINT BROKE WHY FIX IT ANYWAY HOPE SOMEONE CAN HELP ME THANKS
MARGIE....................
PS I AM JUST AN AVERAGE COMPUTER LITERATE PERSON AM FINDING IT HARDER WITH EACH NEW OS PROBABLY AGE HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT SO PLEASE BE PATIENT

 

[marsmimar]

Hi Margie and welcome.

It's my understanding that animations no longer appear when composing an email but will appear when they are received. You could check this out by sending an email to yourself.

 

[roncerr]

After unsticking your caps lock key, you might check the options for sending mail and make sure it's set to send in html rather than text.

 

[MARGIE]

Thank you marsimar I have tried sending myself an email with my gif file inserted but the animation does not appear. I love doing my emails but I am really getting frustrated with Windows Live mail. I have sorted most things out this is the only thing I am still having problems with. 'Many thanks

 

[MARGIE]

margie

After unsticking your caps lock key, you might check the options for sending mail and make sure it's set to send in html rather than text.

I have html checked thanks

 

[marsmimar]

Did some more research and found this website. Couldn't try out the instructions because I don't use WLM.

Windows Live Mail Animated gif - Tech Support Forum

 

[iseeuu]

Welcome MARGIE!

I also have difficulty with small print on some web pages. I use the FireFox Web Browser which allows me to make just the text larger and easier to read:





Cheers!
Robert

 

[MARGIE]

margie

Did some more research and found this website. Couldn't try out the instructions because I don't use WLM.

Windows Live Mail Animated gif - Tech Support Forum

thanks i will try that link

 

[baarod]

Thank you marsimar I have tried sending myself an email with my gif file inserted but the animation does not appear. I love doing my emails but I am really getting frustrated with Windows Live mail. I have sorted most things out this is the only thing I am still having problems with. 'Many thanks

GIF animation is not a function of email in the least bit. Likely, a sizable portion of your email recipients miss either the animation or the GIF entirely depending on the software they use to read your message. If you want to show someone an animated GIF file, upload it to drop.io (Simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io) and link to it as well as inlining it. Inline HTML mail attachments are not universally supported and as such many of your recipients are probably missing the joke and think you're daft.

 

[MARGIE]

Did some more research and found this website. Couldn't try out the instructions because I don't use WLM.

Windows Live Mail Animated gif - Tech Support Forum

thanks i will try that link

i have done what you said in that link and i am so happy thank you a thousand times over your help was greatly appreciated i have printed off the instructions till i get used to doing it

 

[MARGIE]

margie

thank you for your help

 

[MARGIE]

Thank you everyone for your help. It has been very good and I think I have it all sorted out now once again many thanks to all Margie
Please excuse me if I never answered everyone but I am stil working this forum thing out

 

[marsmimar]

Glad it got sorted out!

Thanks for posting back to let us know.

 

[MARGIE]

your welcome was the least i could do thanks again

 

[roncerr]

The link makes it seem more complicated than necessary if you're happy with the default size of the gif. In the new email (NOT photo email) just choose Insert/image/inline. It will initially show up with a green box around it which disappears as you add more text. But the gif isn't moving until you look at it in the Sent Items folder after sending. If you're doing a photo email the "inline" option is greyed out and there is no way to "insert" a gif by importing from Windows Explorer. However you can choose one of the built-in emoticons and it will still move in the draft copy before sending.

 

[petempls]

Windows Live Mail

I, too, have a problem with putting animated gifs in an e-mail (with Windows Live). And I already have my e-mail configured to send in HTML ..... so that's not the problem!! I miss my old email with Windows XP. Windows 7 is great compared to Vista! But Windows Live Mail sucks.