Yes, you can insert animation in Microsoft Word using the animated 3D effect, which can also be a substitute for a GIF. The animated 3D effects are also available in Excel and PowerPoint.

Microsoft's new Pix2Gif model can turn a still image and a short text prompt into an animated gif in seconds. ... To train the model they used 100,000 animated gifs with appropriate captions, ...

Microsoft's research division has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) model to turn a still image into a Pix2Gif in seconds. This new publicly available AI tool, Pix2Gif, uses the same ...