>> Since moving from Outlook Express to Outlook, when sending animated
>> gifs (inserted) they appear but no longer animate. Email setting is
>> for Rich Text, is this correct.

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> You must use HTML as the message format.
> Note that the gif-file doesn't animate while composing with Word as
> the email editor or at all when using Outlook 2007. This doesn't affect
> the animated gif itself for the receiver.