By default, Outlook plays animated graphics in the body of email messages. If only the first frame of the animation appears, you have animations, or animated GIFs, disabled. You can enable animated GIFs in Outlook by doing one of the following: In Outlook for Office 365 before version 2008, select File > Options > Advanced.
GIF support will be for Office 365 subscribers using the desktop Outlook client. Animated GIFs are already supported in Outlook’s mobile apps as well as the webmail client. Outlook 2019, however, is not supporting animated GIFs. Support will roll out to Office Insider subscribers first, starting in early February.
Since 2007, Outlook began to use Microsoft Word as it’s text editor. Word cannot read HTML elements in your emails meaning that all GIFs you include as you write an email, or GIFs received in an email from someone else, will display as a still image of the first frame of that GIF.
Then, why can’t I see GIFs in outlook?
Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2019 There is no support for animated GIF-files when composing or reading an email. If you want to see the animation you’ll need to open the message in a browser. To do this, double click the message to open it in its own window.
How do I open a GIF file in outlook?
You can configure Windows to open the GIF-files in an application that supports animation like Microsoft Edge or any other Internet browser. When you right click on an animated GIF within an email in Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019 or Microsoft 365, you can choose “Save as Picture…” to save the animated GIF file with its animation intact.
What is a GIF in Microsoft Outlook?
GIF standing for Graphic Interchange Format is a popular format among Internet users. It can be compared to a slide show. A series of images is rapidly displayed to create the impression of motion in the picture. GIFs are widely used not only for fun, and marketers often add GIFs in Outlook emails.
Is it bad to put GIFs in emails?
Not Overdoing It Overusing GIFs in emails can have negative effects, such as slowing down the loading speed of emails, making readers lose track of your key points, causing visual fatigue, and more. That’s all for how to put a GIF into Outlook email and Gmail email.