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Last updated: 22 September 2017

How to Copy and Paste Animated GIF Images

November 3, 2016 By Lalit Kumar 1 Comment

Learn how to copy and paste GIF images. These methods will help you if only one static frame of animated image is downloading in your computer.




Animated GIF images are very useful when you want to show a small animation in webpages. The Internet is full of great gif images and a lot of them are available even as free animated gifs. You can just download them and use on your webpages. But when you copy or save an animated gif, all you get is a static frame from the animated gif file. You need to know the right method to copy and paste an animated gif if you want to get hold of them and use in your website.

In today’s article, we will learn how you can copy any animated gif into your computer and then paste it as animated gif in your target webpage.

Copy / Save Animated GIF Images

There are many methods to save an animated gif. You can use any of these methods to achieve the goal:

Method 1: Save Full HTML Page

STEP 1: Go to the webpage where animated gif is appearing.

STEP 2: Go to Settings of your browser and select Save Page (in Firefox) or More tools > Save page as (in Google Chrome). A box will appear, just save the page in whichever location you prefer.

copy paste animated gif images

STEP 3: Open Windows Explorer or File Explorer and navigate to the location where you had saved the page. You will see that a folder has also been created with the same name as that of the saved HTML page.

STEP 4: Open the folder and search for *.gif —the results will show the animated gif that you wanted.

STEP 5: You can paste the downloaded gif image in an MS Word file, email or in a webpage.

STEP 6: In MS Word document, go to Insert > Picture to embed the gif image. But MS Word can not show animation if gifs. If you really to embed animated gif in MS Word, then you will have to save the Word document as a Web Page. When you will open this web page document (created by MS Word) in a web browser, you will see the animated gif in action.

SEE ALSO: Learn how to convert a video into animated gif in our Internet tricks archive.

Method 2: Copy Animated GIF and Paste It

STEP 1: Go to the webpage that is displaying the animated gif you want.

STEP 2: Take right click on the image and select Copy

STEP 3: Open Windows Explorer or File Explorer and navigate to the location where you want to save the image

STEP 4: Take right click in any empty area and select Paste. Instead of right click, you can also use CTRL+V to do the paste operation.

STEP 5: Now the whole animated gif (along with animation, of course!) has been saved in your computer. You can insert it in a Word document, email or webpage as you want.

We hope that this article on how to copy and paste an animated gif was useful for you. Should you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments section. We will try and assist you. Thank you for using TechWelkin!

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Last updated: 22 September 2017 | Published on: 3 November 2016 | Authored and Edited by: Lalit Kumar and Team | Filed as: Home » Tips and Tricks » How to Copy and Paste Animated GIF Images

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Lalit Kumar is the Principal Author and Founder of TechWelkin. He is a web explorer and he enjoys finding useful information on the Internet. He loves to put things together to create a bigger solution. Lalit is passionate about technology, languages and literature. You can contact Lalit via email (techwelkin [at] gmail [dot] com) or Facebook (facebook.com/techwelkin).

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  1. Mohana says

    May 7, 2019 at 2:31 pm

    HI, everyone i want to share one of the interest topic is Save GIF from Twitter – GIFs are a fun tool to employ in conversations for a fair share of laughs or to share on social media to create quite a sensation. They are short and often involve eye-grabbing gimmicks that are easy to view and share.

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