You go to start->search->type *.gif
yes, it stands for Graphic Interchange Format. The files in the gif format have the .gif extension.
These file extensions are not video files because they are in fact not a video. The files saved to .gif are animations. Most are of lower quality and are not much longer then a few seconds.
Open the File Explorer or Finder application on your computer. Navigate to the folder or location where you want to search for GIF files. In the search box, type *.gif and press Enter. This will show you all the files that have the .gif extension in that folder or location.
There are many programs and applications that provide support for creating GIF files such as Jasc Animation Shop and Photoshop. Using these programs, you can create GIF files from your images.
Windows Movie Maker imports .gif files is the original format size. You will have to stretch the gif out on the time-line to see its total animation.
GIF files have a small file size so they can load quicker and you are not sitting and waiting for minutes for the page to load.
I think GIF can do small video type movements that JPG cannot.
GIF, JPG, and PNG files can be supported by DEVIENTart. They do not accept Flash or GIF files. They also reserve the right to refuse any submissions.
Excel is not designed to open flash or gif files. It is for opening spreadsheets. You can open a graphic file separately and copy and paste it into Excel, but you cannot open them directly.
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Open Word, and use the Insert -> Picture -> From File option to put 1 or more GIF files into a word document, and then save it.