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Lief! Some time ago I saw a thread that gave instructions on how to use smilies in Outlook etc. I’ve tried searching a number of forums, but to no avail. Can you give me some clues? If I attach one of these files to an e-mail it shows up as a ugly icon. If you double-click on the icon then the browser window opens and the smilie is there! How do I get these to show up in the message itself?

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You don’t want to attach, you want to insert.

File > New > Mail Message
(Make sure you are using HTML format)
Fill in the Recipient and Subject fields.
Click within the body of the message then:
Insert > Picture . . .

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Ahh, but there be the problem. In my Insert Menu I only have have ‘File’ ‘Item’ ‘Object’ and ‘Signature’ choices. No Insert -> Picture.

Under Tools ->Options ->Mail Format the ‘send in this format’ box is grayed out. I assume this is where I turn HTML on/off. Funny because I receive messages in HTML format, I guess I just can’t send them. If I could insert a [sob] smilie here I would.

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Are you using an elderly version of Outlook? – seems to be no problem here using Ol2000/2002.

Unless . . . [scary_music.wav] . . . you are using Word as your email editor?

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(Edited by Bowlie on 30-Oct-02 17:04. forgot to answer the question!)

Gee, would you call Outloo 98 elderly? Well before the budget cuts, I was going to get a new PC and everyone was going to get XP. Guess what happened

No I’m not using Word as my e-mail editor. I guess its just this old stuff. I’m going to see if I can do this on my Mac tonight at home!

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Maybe your installation of Outlook 98 is incomplete or damaged. I still use Outlook 98, and in Tools/Options/Mail Format, I can select HTML, RTF, plain text and Microsoft Word in the “Send mail in this format” combo box.
When I compose a mail in HTML format, I can insert pictures etc.; the menu is almost the same as posted by Leif.

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It is possible for a Network Administrator to disable this option… if they’re uhm… enough about bandwidth…

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That’s what they have done! But the very helpful help desk fellow told me that I can get around it. If I go:

Actions -> New Mail Message using -> No Stationary I end up with a HTML formatted blank message. I can then:
Insert -> Picture.

The administrator taketh away and the help desk givith!

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(Edited by Leif on 16-Mar-03 19:05. – Mozilla update.)

So you want to download our Smilies for your own use? No problem – but do be aware of, and comply with, Rule 5.

Internet Explorer

Single smilies – with your mouse over the Smilie, right_click and select Save Picture As…

The whole collection:
Click on this link to open a new window full of Smilies.
File > Save As
and (e.g.) :
File name: C:smilies
Save as type: Web page, complete
This should give you (on your C: drive) a file called smilies.htm AND a folder called smilies_files in which you will find all of them!

Mozilla 1.1a

Thanks to KenK who reports he “loaded the smilies page, right clicked on it ( going to the “File” dropdown works too), chose “save page as” selected “web page, complete” as the file type and selected the folder I wanted to place it in. Clicked on “Save” ……. done”

Other Browsers

I’ve got absolutely no idea! I tried in vain to come up with a working solution with Netscape. . . .
If anyone has any solutions, please PM me with instructions and I’ll update this post.

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Leif you are a genius! I could not find the thread or post that I had seen a while back either, appreciate all you do to assist many of us so often. Understood these gifs are not for commercial use. Thank you.

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Hi Leif

Don’t know about Netscape, but in Mozilla1.1, once you have opened the “Smilies Window”, and waited for the page to completely load, you can Right Click on the page and select “Save page as…”.
Works for me anyway.
Thanks for the download info….

Have a Great day!!!
Ken

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Just dropped by this forum and stumbled upon this post. I read the rules (admittedly I hadn’t) and after checking the smilies, I’m trying to find a courteous use for the RTFM one (that is, to comply with rule # 9 – ‘Just try to be courteous’). Maybe when speaking ironically about an instruction hid deep in a user-not-so-friendly manual… Just guessing.
Apart from that, smilies are great. A great improvement over the number of smilies and flags to pick from has been done from the fist time I used them.

Keep going like that!

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I think I’ve used it when I didn’t RTFM and should have… usually in conjunction with
have fun

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I see– your help I appreciate. Methinks a little more forethought from my part coulda prevented my posting… But then I woulda missed your enlightenment (awright, am I being polite or what?? )
BTW, She-Wolf…. err no, wait… Megadeth is taking over again…. Lady Wolf, have you noticed how … … suggestive … … smilies can be?

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Suggestive? I don’t see anything particularly suggestive…
have fun

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And you think there’s a polite use for and ?

StuartR

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Oh, My, now I’m in real trouble! I can think of a polite use for but these being too many are way more than my mind would ever handle at 1 a.m.!
DATA OVERLOAD

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here is another way to suggest “RTFM” to other people

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“Factory”? Is this correct? My Babylon Translator (the good ol’ ver. which stores the dic. database files locally in your PC) yielded one very different result…. far more aggressive .
If I had known the “F” stood for “Factory” then I wouldn’t have questioned the smiley’s courteousness in the first place…
I’ll try to make up for my ignorance with a smiley
… Ok, maybe two

Thanks Geoff

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Obviously, a URL with the nice gentle name of “werafakawi” is a family site, and people must be protected from the more aggressive vocabulary.

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You weren’t having a dig at anyone with that link, were you?

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Additional query words:

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Tim,

There’s no reference intended to our lounger of the same name. That was just something on the original page I copied.

A Google on “RTFM BigAl” gives at least 8 pages of a similar nature- just with the vocabulary not cleaned up.

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Thanx fer that! I wuz worried there for a few hundred minutes that maybe I’d done somethin’ REALLY bad, since my vocab is ALWAYS clean and fit for family listenin’ or readin’

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Seemed funny at the time; the contrast between the content of that page, and finding an apparent reference to our recently elevated lounger at the end of it. If you had spotted the reference, I’m sure you would have pointed out that it had to be for someone else sharing the same moniker.

for any confusion or offence caused, none was intended, especially the latter.

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How could a suggestion to Read The Fine Manual for more details possibly be discourteous?

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Is it possible to attach Alt tags to these gifs so we would be able to just pass our mice over an individual gif and know what it ise — without having to look it up in the WOPR Smilies library? Some of them are sort of difficult to see, and the expressions aren’t always visible… They’re probably perfectly visible to someone with normal eyesight, but not all of us have it. Thanks.

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I’m not sure I understand the question – attach Alt tags to the smilies page or to each individual smilie as it’s posted?
In either case, they already seem to be…

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I must have a setting wrong somewhere, then, because I’m not seeing the Alt tags. Thanks for alerting me that they are already tagged!

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You may be missing an Extension for FF – see (e.g.) post 535,818 and replies.

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Leif,
Many, many thanks! The Alt tags are working fine now in FF 1.5.

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Lounge skins and Firefox extensions aside, remember that Mozilla (and Firefox?) in their native conditions do not show Alt= tags. The writer of the code must ALSO use the Title= tag in order for some of us to see the popup text.

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Right, that’s true — the photos/gifs have to have the tag in order for it to work. Not a problem there. One question, though, about the PopUp Alt Attribute extension. It seems to work the first time I try it on a page, but stops working immediately thereafter. In other words, I can see the Alt tag for the very first smilie that I check, but if I hover over another, different smilie on the same page, nothing happens. Has this been the case for you and the other loungers who use this extension, or is there something that needs to be done to get it to recognize more than the very first tag it encounters? I’m now using FF 1.5, and the ZAP settings for animations, ads, etc. are disabled.

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You are not alone – see post 535,900.

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In case anyone is using GroupWise Formativ emoticons…
You can put all your smilies here C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataAdvansysFormativ1.0DataEmoticons and they come up when you click on your GroupWise emoticons icon.
Emily

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>AND a folder called smilies_files in which you will find all of them!
I figured that the small ones (1K) were not animated and the large ones were animated.
Then I used right-click and found that animated GIFs had a framecount greater than 1.
Is there a way of displaying this attribute in Explorer? I couldn’t see an obvious column to add.

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Not that I know of…

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Out of interest:
Where is it that you see the framecount? I don’t see it in properties | General or Properties | Details??
Also, in explorer, I see all images as ‘stills’, is there a way to show the animated images as animated?
Thanks

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Under Summary – click on ‘Advanced’…

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I don’t get ‘Summary’, I get ‘Details’, with no option to ‘Advance’. Is this a vista “thing”?

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Gotta love Windows Vista!

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My attachment is what I see with XP Pro.

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Hi Nathan,

As Hans has indicated… it is a Vista thing. However, for us Vista users, IrfanView will display the number of images.

Cheers, Bob

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You don’t need to go to the properties to see the image count. A frame count appears in the lower right corner of the window. Older versions included the word images (or maybe it was frames) From version 4.1 on (maybe earlier) longer tells what this “mystery” number represents.

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Thanks for the added info.

Never got past referencing the first few panels in the lower screen area. IrfanView is indeed a nice to have app!!!

Bob

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The intersting thing that you have just highlighted to me is that the actual “real dimensions of the bananas animated gif file is 32(W) x 35(H) but the view you have in the Vista folder sees it as 21(W) x 29(H).

The reason for this is because the image in the thumbnail is the first frame of the sequence and is ignoring all alpha transparent pixels viewing the dancing banana 8 coloured pixels.

The reason for the oversize of the extra 11 pixels width and 6 high is caused by frame 7 where the banana is at full stretch.

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Many Thanks to all of you for your input. I have now downloaded Irfanview, as well as Faststone Image Viewer and Paint.Net. Not sure which suits best as yet, but your input is much appreciated.

Curiosity has me now, on to work out how to create them!!

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This thread has now become very long, and it has strayed away from the original subject, so I’m locking it now.

Feel free to start a new thread if necessary.

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> Also, in explorer, I see all images as ‘stills’, is there a way to show the animated images as animated?

I don’t think that would be a desirable feature. Imagine that you have a folder with 500 animated gif files – displaying all of them animated as the same time would be a heavy burden on the processor, having a negative impact on performance.

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Hans, My first thought of response was ‘valid point’. But then I wondered: Well how does that differ from seeing 500 animated images in a htm file? Are these ‘processed’ differently? (Please excuse my ignorrance).

<< You gotta love Vista ……. NO YOU DON’T!! Bring back XP!!

Thanks Leif, I guess Vista has hidden this information somewhere….

I’m curious, so am gonna go learn more about animated images [ being as sitting in the garden in the middle of August is not an option in this wonderful country ]

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Thumbnail view in Windows Explorer can display a large number of images at once – more than you’d probably see in a web page. Also, resizing the images on the fly would probably increase the processor load (but I’m just guessing here).
But who knows, it might well become available in a future version – 15 years ago, thumbnail view would have been a problem.

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Additional observations: while visiting another website, I found links to web pages full of animated gifs.
Apparently, animated gifs themselves don’t challenge the processor – after downloading a page had finished, processor usage (in Task Manager) dropped to (nearly) 0%.
But there was one page showing thumbnails of animated gifs, and that one kept processor usage at about 40%.

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>Where is it that you see the framecount?
I suspect the question is answered before I get to it, but, in Windows XP I right-click the file name, choose properties from the context-sensitive menu, choose the Summary tab.

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