Office Outlook, enable gif animation

Question

At work, when I receive a animated gif, it displays the animation, but at home it shows a static picture (no animation). Is there any option/registry key to enable it?

Answer 1

Is Outlook 2003 running on both computers, or is your home running Outlook 2007?

Office 2003 supports animated .gif files, but 2007 doesnt. See this:

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. Then choose Other Actions-> View in Browser. This will open the message in Internet Explorer.

If the animated .gif is not showing on Outlook 2003, you can try following these steps, but I am not sure if they will work or not:

1. Open Word
2. Go to Options
3. Then click the 'General' tab
4. Enable "Provide feedback with Animation"
5. Press Save/Ok/Close/whatever