URGENT PLEASE HELP...I WILL BE FIRED IF I DONT FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE ANIMATED GIF W ADDED TEXT SCREENS AT HIGH RESOLUTION...

i have tried to use powerpoint and it is easy to create the slideshow but how to save it as a GIF?  if i choose to save as a GIF, it makes a folder with each image as a separate frame.  NOT COOL!  all i want is a single GIF that is a simple slideshow....

can i do this in SWAY more easily?  again all i need to do is to create a slide show out of text screens alternated with images and save the whole thing as a GIF so that i can paste it into an email campaign

it would be v easy to do this in Microsoft Movie Maker BUT it only saves image frames with a BLACK frame around the picture.  We need WHITE frames around each image, and this is not possible in the archived version of Movie Maker I got from the Microsoft site.

please and thank you in advance for your help!

Warmly,

Lewis Weiss