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I have a strange issue. I made a few animated GIFs in Photoshop and later on I wanted to import them into a PowerPoint presentation. So far so good, but when I ran the presentation, some frames were missing or not in place.
Why is that? I have the same issue with every GIF I created.
Here's an example of a GIF file which loses frames in PowerPoint but shows without errors in browsers.
First, ensure you are inserting the GIF the way Microsoft recommends. This method is relevant for PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2013 and PowerPoint 2010.
Select the slide that you want to add the animated GIF to.
In the Insert tab of the ribbon, click Pictures.
In the Insert Picture dialog box, navigate to the location of the animated GIF you want to add.
Select the file, and then click Insert or Open.
To play the animation, click the Slide Show view button on the task bar in the bottom bar of the PowerPoint window.
If your GIF does not loop or animate endlessly (i.e. it only loops once or a limited amount of times), then this might be because the internal setting of the GIF is only set to a limited number of animations (source). You will have to modify the GIF to change how many times the GIF loops. Microsoft recommends the online editor called https://ezgif.com/. Detailed instructions are here.
You can add any animated *.gif by just drag and drop from explorer window, or in the ribbon UI click Insert - Pictures and navigate to your gif image, and click Insert. Press F5 to begin the slideshow. Make sure your GIF file is animating by opening it with Internet Explorer, because static GIFs never animate.
Here's the MS Powerpoint 2013 demonstration:
Best Answer
1) Are the .gif files in the same directory as the PowerPoint presentation? If you're working in Windows and you move the PowerPoint file after you've linked the files you may have issues - Windows doesn't do well with relative links.
2) Are the .gif files embedded or just linked? You may want to try embedding them into the file - you'll end up with a bigger PowerPoint file, but it may fix this.
3) How large are the file sizes? Remember, PowerPoint has to try and load each file as you enter the frame.
4) It sounds like you're running this on a laptop - have you tried looking at the presentation on a desktop? Check the system you're working on for RAM, processor speed, etc. to make sure you have enough horsepower to drive this.
5) It used to be that you needed at least 100M continuous space on the hard drive to run video files (so Windows could cache). I'm not sure if there's a similar requirement for .gifs but if it runs fine on another machine and not so well on your laptop you may wish to defragment your hard drive (if you're running on Windows).
Do you really need animated .gifs? Sometimes you do - I've used them effectively to demonstrate mechanical concepts, but the example you gave us, while nice looking, doesn't seem to do anything but demonstrate that you can have motion in a presentation. Remember that PowerPoint audience members are like deer - they'll immediately focus on motion to the exclusion of anything else - not helpful if you're trying to get them to pay attention to things like bullet points that say "Under no circumstances should you ever, ever push the shiny red 'Self-Destruct' switch on the Doomsday device". Seriously consider how important the animated .gifs are before tossing them in. I am even fairly conservative with transitions since I want people focusing on the bullet points, not the animations.