How To Insert Animated Gif In Outlook

Making GIFs breathing

I've got some GIF-files in Outlook but they don't animate.
How can I make them work?

Support for animated GIF files is a bit diverse throughout the lifetime of Outlook so allow me give y'all an overview of when a GIF volition and when a GIF will not animate.

In curt; Only Outlook every bit part of a Microsoft 365 subscription and Role 2021 offering full support for animated GIF-files.

Microsoft 365 and Part 2021

As said, playing and inserting blithe GIFs in emails is fully supported when you apply Outlook as office of a Microsoft 365 subscription or Part 2021.

The GIF-animation volition non loop indefinitely but will merely loop 3 times. After 3 animation loops, the blitheness will finish and a Play push button will show on the image. Pressing this Play button will loop the animation some other 3 times.

Paused GIF animation after looping iii times.

When at that place are multiple blithe GIFs inserted into the electronic mail, even when they are the same, each animated GIF has its own Play button to simply showtime that animated paradigm.

At any time, the animation tin be stopped by clicking on the animated GIF. The blitheness will be paused and the Play push button will exist shown once again. Clicking on the Play push volition resume the blitheness (continues from where you paused information technology) and so loops 3 full animation cycles.

If you don't like to encounter GIF animations in Outlook or when y'all don't see the GIF blitheness in Outlook even when using an upwardly-to-engagement release of Outlook for Microsoft 365, so y'all tin can turn it off or on again in Windows Settings.

Windows 10
Showtime-> Settings-> Ease of Access-> Brandish-> Prove animations in Windows
Windows 11
Showtime-> Settings-> Accessibility-> Visual furnishings-> Animation effects

Whether or not GIFs animate in Outlook can be controlled within Windows Settings.
Whether or non GIFs animate in Outlook can be controlled within Windows Settings.

Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2019

There is no back up for blithe GIF-files when composing or reading an email in earlier versions of Outlook. If you want to see the blitheness you'll demand to open the message in a browser.

To do this, double click the message to open it in its ain window. And then cull (Other) Actions-> View in Browser. This will open the message in Net Explorer or Microsoft Edge.

Y'all can skip the step of needing to open the message in its own window first and directly open the bulletin in whatsoever browser (Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, information technology's your pick) from the main Outlook window via this macro.

Note: Even though the GIF-file volition not animate while composing, when the recipient receives your bulletin in a postal service client that does support GIF-animation, the GIF-animation will all the same work.

The View in Browser choice is located in the Actions carte du jour of the Move group.

As attachment in whatever version of Outlook

Whether attached GIFs animate when you open them is completely upwardly to the application that you open your GIF-files with. Outlook has no command over this.

You can configure Windows to open the GIF-files in an application that supports blitheness like Microsoft Edge or whatsoever other Cyberspace browser.

Saved from an embedded animated GIF

When you right click on an animated GIF within an electronic mail in Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019 or Microsoft 365, you can cull "Save as Motion picture…" to save the animated GIF file with its animation intact.

When y'all practice this in Outlook 2013, you currently get an error and can't salve the animated GIF-file. You can save it in another format though such as BMF, JPG or PNG but of course these format do not support animation.

When you do this in Outlook 2010, you lot'll only save the first frame of the animation and the residue is lost.

In Outlook 2007, you'll observe that y'all can only save it in BMP-format or don't have the option to save it at all. When you save it as a BMP-file, information technology will of class no longer animate.

To salvage the embedded GIF-file to your hard disk drive and maintain the animation y'all can use this macro. This macro works for whatever embedded pic (png, jpg, etc…) and allows you to keep it in their original format, exactly as the original sender has sent it to you lot.

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