How to Insert Animated GIF in PowerPoint?
Gifs are quite popular form of visuals on social media and other platforms. These are usually used in entertaining way but you can also convey message and information with gifs. A gif may look like an image but it works like a looped video. This guide will cover step by step guide on how to insert animated gif in PowerPoint.
Is it a good idea to add gif to your presentation? Media and visuals help to make your presentation more immersive. Long form slides with text only can be boring for the audience. Gifs and other visuals help to grab attention of the audience. In professional presentations, statistics and reports can also be presented in gif format.
What is an Animated GIF?
Gif is short form for Graphics Interchange Format. A gif is the combination of different images or frames into a looping and never-ending animation. These types of visuals are usually popular for social media and web graphics. Gif animations do not have sound and take less space and storage than a video. The below visual is the simplest form of animated gif.
Inserting an animated gif in PowerPoint slide is similar to adding an image. If a short video is taking space and extra load time for presentation, you can convert that short video to an animated gif and then add to the slide.
Insert Animated GIF in PowerPoint
There are two simple methods to insert a GIF into a PowerPoint presentation. Before starting the steps to add an animated gif to slides, make sure you have the gif that you want to add. Where to get gifs and how to convert a video to a gif? We are going to answer these questions in the next sections. For now, let’s see how to add animated gifs to the slide.
Method 1: Copy GIF from the Website
Custom gifs might be hard to find and you will have to create a few for your presentation. But for general animations to add humor and aesthetic appeal for attention there are sites like giphy.com that have lots of gif animations available for different purposes. Here is how to copy an animated gif website and then add to slides.
Step 1: Go to an online gif website and search for the required gif animation
Step 2: Open the animation and copy the gif with right-click >> copy the image
Step 3: Open the PowerPoint presentation and go to the slide where you want to paste the gif animation
Step 4: Paste the gif by pressing CTRL+V key combination
Step 5: Drag and place the animated gif where you want it to display on the slide
Keep in mind that when you paste the gif on your slide, it will appear as a still image in the editing mode. When you start the slideshow, the gif will keep running like an animation in the loop.
Method 2: Upload an Animated GIF from your Computer
Do you have a custom animated gif for your slide? Instead of copying a gif from the internet, you might want to insert a gif to slide from your device. The process of uploading a GIF from the device is similar to adding images or pictures to the PowerPoint.
- Go to PowerPoint presentation and choose the slide where you want to upload the gif.
- Go to Insert >> Picture >> Browse your device for the gif >> Upload gif >> finalize it
Now, your slide has the gif that will animate when you start the slideshow. You can also add gif animation to slides by drag and drop process. Go to the destination folder, drag the gif and drop on the target slide. You are done.
How to Find GIF Animation for Slides?
There are online sources for finding the right gifs for your presentations. As you can find required video on YouTube, you can also find gif animations on sites like Giphy.com and many other popular options like:
How to Convert a Video to Gif Animation?
Sometimes you have to explain specific steps in a short video but uploading video to slide or site makes it slower in processing. The simplest way is to convert a video to gif. Our editors use the same technique to convert videos to gif to help you understand how to perform actions in PowerPoint.
You just have to upload the recorded video to online video to gif convertor and then downloaded the final gif file. Once gif animation is downloaded, you can insert to the slide by using any of the given methods in the upper sections.
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Conclusion- Insert Animated GIF in PowerPoint
Animations and gifs are not suitable for every presentation but there are certain ways to use informative gifs in professional settings too. Make sure you use the suitable gif animations to your slide. You can copy a gif from online site and paste into the slide or use the insert picture feature to insert animated gif in PowerPoint.