If you have an email in Outlook that you know has animated GIFs, look for the Actions submenu on the Message tab and select View in Browser.Īdding animated GIFs to chat applications is a good way of making a point more vociferously than with smilies… though it can be even more distracting. This is a series of frames which are played like a simple video – with low frame rates & no sound, yet they have occupied a niche in the way people use the web.Īpplications tend not to render animated GIFs well – Outlook, for example, simply inserts a static image, but browsers do show them properly.

Most people, however, will be familiar with GIFs due to a sub-variant – the Animated GIF. GIFs were relatively poor quality – only 256 colours could be used 30 years ago, that wasn’t an issue but in recent decades, it’s more limiting. One long-used file type goes back to 1987, the GIF – standing for Graphics Interchange Format, predating the eventually prevalent JPEG format by 5 years. PPT will always be PowerPoint – though that app has gained notoriety in such phrases as “ Death by PowerPoint” (which we’ve all been subjected to, even if not completely fatal), or “ PowerPoint Karaoke” (reading out the words on slides without adding anything). TXT, have been around for so long and are so cross-platform, they transcend association with any one application, whereas. We’re all used to file formats being associated with programs and the data they work with.

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