Vista - Animation in Email, & Contacts Listing in Email Account Column

I save some animated icons, like smileys and other gifs, most of which I've
saved from other emails I've received. In Outlook Express I used to always
insert them into emails by hitting the Insert icon and browsing to my folder
(stored in my Documents).

I tried to do this every which way in Windows Live Mail. I used the "Add
image" icon, and the Insert > Image > Photo email, and Insert > Image >
Inline (whatever that means). Every time, the animated icon came out still,
it lost its animated quality.

I did succeed just once, but never since. I don't know if some update
disabled it, or perhaps my turning on my UAC (User Account Control) feature
disabled it? That's the only change I've made on my system.

ALSO, I miss having my Contacts listed below my email accounts, with a
scroll bar so I could easily scan through them and simply double-click a name
to open a new email addressed to that contact. In WLM you have to open a
separate window with contacts and then right-click a name and choose "Send an
email". It's not nearly as efficient or convenient.

Is there some option somewhere to get the Contacts listed below the email
accounts like OE used to be set up?

Any ideas, suggestions, work-arounds are welcome.

Thanks, Joanne

WLM will not show the animation in the email composition window.
Save to Drafts, then open the email from Drafts or send an email to yourself
to check the animation.

WLM does a really good job of creating a list of contacts when you start
typing in the address field.
The more that you type, the shorter the list.
Typing brings up a list of the typed letters in first name, last name,
display name, and email address.
Typing 'jo' would bring up Jones, Johnson, joe1956@xxxxxx, john146@xxxxxx
It is faster than scrolling through a list of contacts.
I didn't waste screen space on the contacts pane in OE.
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Ronald Sommer


"Joanne" <Joanne@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your reply.

WOW, I can't believe WLM won't show animation in an email composition window
- please tell me WHY?!!!!!! I don't understand how first saving an email as a
Draft would help either, that doesn't change the email in any way, it just
saves it temporarily before sending, in its original form. I'll try it anyway
the next time I'm on my Vista machine, but I don't have much hope to be
honest...and what a nuisance. I also don't understand how/why it worked the
first time I tried it (the animation worked) and never since, that's a
mystery to me!

I'm also stunned that there is no option to set up Contacts to be viewed at
all times in that left-hand pane below email accounts in WLM. I know of
course about inserting contacts via auto-complete, but that's not nearly as
efficient as just double-clicking names already visible in the window to
insert them into the email Address bar. I also like to scroll thru those
contacts sometimes to select contacts I want to send a specific email to, and
it's so much more convenient and SMART to have them right there. At least
give me the OPTION to set it up that way, as it was in Outlook Express!

Now I'm honestly wondering if there's some way to download a version of OE
to Vista, coz WLM is really a step BACKWARDS if you ask me, with less
features and less customization options. So disappointing.

I also have an issue with WLM opening to and syncing first to my secondary
Hotmail account which is listed SECOND in the accounts listing in that left
panel. It will NOT open to or sync first to the Hotmail account I have
designated as the "DEFAULT" account, listed on top, and also first
alphabetically btw. So what's up with that? Is it possible that works
according to the order in which the accounts were originally set up, and
maybe, by some chance, I configured my secondary email account first? That's
the only other thing I can think of!

One other issue - The F5 shortcut I used to use in OE to Refresh and
download any new mail to the Inbox I'm in at the moment, no longer works in
WLM. I've tried ctrl-m instead, but that just opens the whole "Send/Receive"
window, which once again starts downloading new messages from the top, i.e.
with my secondary account first. I just want to update an individual account
for any possible new messages periodically, in between my 7-minute designated
intervals set up under Tools > Options.

Know what else? I couldn't even get to this reply from the link enclosed in
the "Microsoft Community" email notification I received. All I got was a
blank white webpage when I clicked on the link. I tried copying and pasting
the address too, several times, and on several different machines, with no
luck. I ended up navigating to it via a Google search instead. So, why don't
the official links to replies in this forum WORK?!

Oh boy, now I can't even get this forum to Send my reply! Twice now I've
written it and gotten a page saying "The website is busy now" after I hit
"Post". Now at least I know to hit "Go back" vs. "Refresh the page" so I
don't lose what I've written again (I made a copy too, not taking anymore
chances). Only now, the "Post" button is grayed out, so there's no way to try
sending this again. Unbelievable. What is UP with this site, it seems to be
pretty problematic?!!!

Thanks for the help, sorry to sound so frustrated, it's just that....I AM! :>|

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"Ron Sommer" wrote:

I can copy/paste animated Smiley into the message body of my e-mail. See
screenshot.
t-4-2

"Joanne" <Joanne@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Inline

"Joanne" <Joanne@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:55E8DE09-D6D8-4A9C-81C7-B204B174EFFC@xxxxxxIn a message composition window, you can click on To to open the Address
Book.
Hold down the Ctrl key and left click on one or more addresses, then click
the field to insert the addresses.
The Sync button can be added to the Toolbar. It has a down arrow that lets
you select one account to Sync.
The Communities features is a waste of time.
Using the feature can cause posts to not appear.
Web access to the newsgroups serves a purpose, but accessing newsgroups with
a newsreader is much better.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop

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Ronald Sommer

The op is interested in dynamic rather than static. See attached gif(animated), png(static)
e.g. animation in a gif file which includes multiple frames that repeatedly index to facilitate the movement.

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...winston
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"t-4-2" <dhuang1@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:#gitbNyfJHA.4932@xxxxxx

Inline..

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...winston
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"Joanne" <Joanne@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:55E8DE09-D6D8-4A9C-81C7-B204B174EFFC@xxxxxxAnimation works in IE or when viewing in a 3rd party program(e.g. irfanview). Animation is usually used in html composition and gif
files.Open the Contacts window in WLM, and resize it smaller, you can drag an drop contact from that Window to the To line in a email
composition field.The sync on open(if configured to check) is based on the Live ID used to sign-in with WLM. The location or default selection is
secondary.
- I've set up two hotmail accounts to mimic your #1 and #2, with #1 as default, #2 as the second account setup in WLM.
Sent each account a separate message using a third email address on a different pc.
- WLM on the intended recipient pc is configured to send/receive messages at startup.
- Opened WLM on the recipient pc and used the Live ID#1 as the signon email address

Live ID#1 received the email first.

My personal preference..don't check 'Send/Receive' at startup..Perform the sync(send/receive) by account or manually.
Mail and News
Sync button on the Toolbar or on the menu(Tools) has three options

News mode - sync newsgroup, sync all newsgroups(F5), sync everything(Ctrl F5)
Mail mode - sync email account, sync all email accounts(F5), sync everything(Ctrl F5)

WLM has a common Outbox for all news and mail messages.
In news mode Ctrl-F5 is required to send any unsent emails present in the Outbox
In Mail mode, F5 and Ctrl-F5 sends all contents of the Outbox

I don't know how to show it to you. But trust me, when I copy/pasted the
smiley, it was animated on the message body. My recipients would see it
animated too. I did it dozens of times when we exchanged jokes in our
e-mails.
It turned static when I made a screenshot capture as attachment. I have a
"record screen video" option, but I don't know how to use it. I use SnagIt
9.
t-4-2

"...winston" <winstonmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not the same as the op's question on animation in an email composition.

You are referencing the use of emoticons

...winston
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"t-4-2" <dhuang1@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eoLg6y4fJHA.504@xxxxxx

Gif files do not show in the WLM composition window. They do show in other
places(e.g Sent folders etc)

Sending an animated gif to a newsgroup post in Html is a recipient window,
not a composition window and not related to the op's question on inserting
animated gifs in an email and seeing in the composition windows.
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"t-4-2" <dhuang1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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