Turn Off Text Animation

Anonymous
2017-10-07T23:03:36+00:00

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Microsoft Outlook for Mac, Version 16.6 (171004) has an animation for the text cursor where it "slides" to the right (for English) when inserting a character. Seems like eye candy to me as insertion of a character is a discrete atomic event warranting an advance of the text cursor by one character width. The closest approximation I have to describe the animation behavior would be to say that it's as if every PowerPoint slide transition was suddenly forced to be a "pan right." It's rather gratuitous. (The text cursor animation seems to be present in all the Office apps in 16.6. I'd love to have a way to turn it off.

Microsoft 365 Insider | Outlook | MacOS

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-13T03:25:14+00:00

    While the version number 16.6 (171004) MAY be Windows, it is specifically also MAC:

    Please move this back to the MAC version of the product area.

    NOTE WELL:  The Windows version has a way to turn off the animations as shown here:

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-off-Office-animations-9EE5C4D2-D144-4FD2-B670-22CEF9FA025A

    The MAC version does NOT have a way to disable Office animations.

    The request is to add a setting to the MAC preferences for Office to disable animations since there is not an OS based registry setting for this.  The MAC Office team will need to add it to the Preferences dialogues.

    This appearance of this feature without a way to turn it off is annoying, but likely just an oversight.

    Again, please move this back to the MAC section.

    Thanks,

    Vincent

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-11T10:29:54+00:00

    Hi David,

    Is there any update? Please let us know if you have any concern.

    Thanks,

    Iry

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  3. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP
    2017-10-10T17:20:54+00:00

    I think you are referring to the new way text sort of glides when you type in the latest insider build, am I correct?

    If so, please use the smile button in PowerPoint to send your suggestion directly to the product team.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-10-09T08:50:50+00:00

    Hi David,

    From your description, may I know if you want to remove the animation effects in PowerPoint for Mac?

    If yes, please try as following link: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Change-or-remove-animation-effects-in-PowerPoint-for-Mac-bb9c8019-a0a5-41b7-a710-ab64369d83d4.

    If no, to understand your actual situation, please provide us some information as below:

    1. Some screenshots about “Outlook has changed my macOS machine to a Windows machine” and your outlook version?
    2. Some screenshots or some examples about what you concern ( for example: you want to turn off the office animation in Mac?).

    Please contact us if you have any update.

    Thanks

    Iry

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  5. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP
    2017-10-09T03:02:57+00:00

    And to add to the confusion, because 16.6 is an Insider build, the question should have been raised in the special Insider forum, so I'll give this question another move.

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