Re: GIF does not animate in PowerPoint 2003

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From: Geetesh Bajaj (geeteshREMOVECAPS_at_poboxes.com)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:57:14 +0530

Glad it worked for you - thanks for letting us know.

And thank you, Sonia for sharing the info about animated GIFs. 

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"Ilan (The Grateful)" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:408201c4730a$e0f1d9b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Geetesh (& Sonia),
>
> In a matter of minutes... I downloaded a shareware GIF
> editor, as you siggested. I just had to open and re-
> save... and it is indeed working beautifully.
> Thanks (many)!
> Ilan.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Animated GIFs have a loop characteristic that has to be
> set as part of the
> >GIF file in the application used to create the animated
> GIF.
> >
> >Sonia Coleman, a PowerPoint MVP researched and found out
> that PowerPoint
> >2003 does not loop (animate) an animated GIF unless the
> loop option is
> >explicitly included within the GIF. PowerPoint 2002 has
> no such problems.
> >
> >In short, you'll need to open your animated GIF in an
> animation editor
> >program and set the loop option.
> >
> >
> >-- 
> >Geetesh Bajaj, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
> >PowerPoint Notes: http://www.indezine.com/notes
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> >http://www.indezine.com/powerpoint/templates/freetemplate
> s.html
> >
> >Technical Specialist, PowerPoint Live
> >http://www.powerpointlive.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Ilan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:3fb901c472e2$dd708250$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
> >>
> >> A specific GIF image, which animates in PowerPoint-XP
> >> would stay still when the presentation is run using
> >> PowerPoint-2003 (even running the very same .ppt file,
> >> accessed over the network, will render the same
> result).
> >> Other GIF's do animate as expected, and I could not
> find
> >> what makes this one 'special'..
> >> Any idea ?
> >>
> >> Many thanks for your advice -
> >> Ilan.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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