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For some reasons, animated GIFs have stopped working for me in PowerPoint 2003 (on Win XP SP3). This is a problem only with new files - I do have some old presentations where animated GIFs are shown just fine, but when I try to insert a new GIF into a presentation, only the first frame is displayed (both in editing mode and presentation mode).
I first tried inserting the GIF as an image, to no avail. The MS help pages say that I should use the menu "Insert" - "Movies and Sounds" - "Movies and Sounds from file...", but that doesn't even give me .gif as a file extension for a movie. And if I insert it anyway, it doesn't work either.
Any idea what else I could try?
The GIFs work fine in the Windows Explorer or in a browser.
Tim Pietzcker
Posted 2009-12-06T20:30:04.540
Reputation: 2 338
The link no longer links to anything useful just a 'restricted page'. Are you able to provide more information about the second point? – atomh33ls – 2014-10-01T08:04:32.740
Excellent - your second suggestion led the way! Obviously, the LOOP header was set to 0, causing PPT not to loop at all. Since I didn't want to spend 25$ on GIF Construction Set, I gave ImageMagick a whirl -
convert -loop 10 source.gif dest.gifdid the trick. Many thanks! – Tim Pietzcker – 2009-12-06T21:10:57.233