My animated GIF won't play

Applies To

Excel 2010 Word 2010 Outlook 2010 PowerPoint 2010 Access 2010 OneNote 2010 Publisher 2010 Visio Premium 2010 Visio 2010 Visio Standard 2010 Office 2010 Excel 2007 Word 2007 PowerPoint 2007 Access 2007 OneNote 2007 Publisher 2007 Visio 2007 Visio Standard 2007 Office 2007 Clip Organiser 2010 InfoPath 2010

To play animated GIF files, you must open the files in the Preview/Properties window. To do this, select the animated GIF file, and then on the View menu, click Preview/Properties.

If the GIF does not play, try re-saving the animated GIF in the collection in which you want to put it. On the GIF, click the down-arrow, and then click Preview/Properties.