Do GIFs Work in Google Sheets?
Discover how to effectively use GIFs in Google Sheets, including tips on inserting them correctly to ensure they animate as intended.
you're wondering, do gifs work inside of Google Sheets? Well, here I have used the image formula and I have a GIF that I found online. Here's the URL of that gif, and it's not moving. It's working technically because it is inside of my Google sheet. But how do I get this GIF to actually work? Let's go back to where I found it, which is just Googling for spreadsheet gif. I will want to go to that gif, click save image as, let's call it spreadsheet gif. So it's easy to find. I've downloaded it. Let's go back to our Google sheet, and instead of using this image formula , I'm gonna insert an image over sales. Here, I can upload an image. I'm going to upload this particular image of a gif, and now this GIF is working.
It's gonna be repeating anytime I open this sheet. Very cool. Right? So glad gifs do work. I'm surprised they don't work inside of the cell. Let's check one more way. Insert image in cell. Let's upload that same image again and inside a cell it doesn't work. So in order to use gifs, we must put them over the cells and we can move 'em around, put them anywhere inside the sheet we want. Pretty cool, right? We. You are watching better sheets here on YouTube. Make sure you check out this video or this video and subscribe right now to get more tips, tricks, how tos, get more out of your Google sheets than you ever have before. I'm excited to be making a ton more videos here. Ask me questions down in the comments and I will answer them in future videos.
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