Friday, July 17, 2009

How to: Save GIF files in MS Outlook


For some reason MS Outlook doesn't give you an option easy way to save animation files (.GIF), actually it won't let you save .JPG, .PNG, etc directly from a message and what it does instead is that it gives you the option of saving it as BMP, but many times this is not desirable, every once in a while I need this and I keep forgetting how to do it so I decided to use my blog once again for the purpose of remembering later how to do something; it actually works quite well, so here it is

I actually lied on the title, there are ways to save the .GIF files in Outlook, but I'm not going there, there is a much easier way, forward the message to a web-based email account such as Yahoo or Gmail (haven't tried Hotmail, but it probably works there too)

You'll be able to save the files from there as you would expect, with a right click, save file as...

3 comments:

Paul Fox said...

I could have used this a couple of days ago. I had the same exact problem and didn't have time to look into it in depth. I just had the client zip it up and send it again.

This is a nice solution though, especially if re-requesting the file in another format isn't possible.

BlackTigerX said...

Paul - haha, dang it! I'll write my next posts two days in advance next time :)

Paul Fox said...

Yeah. If you could schedule your blogging more around my wants and needs... That would be best.