GIF Support in Outlook

I been waiting for the day when Outlook will get GIF support and it is here. I been creating GIF to explain a situation or when creating troubleshooting mailer.

Now that outlook has given support to GIF, I can draft GIF embedded mail with more grace. So effectively another dimension i.e.time has been added to my mails.

I use ScreentoGIF to create GIF and it is a nice piece of software with ton of option to edit your recorded GIF like reducing delay between frames, reducing adding transition, adding caption..etc. One thing I recommend is adding a progress bar, so that user intuitively knows at what state the animation is in, when he/she starts noticing it.

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