Turn Off Text Animation

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

Split from this thread.

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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. John Korchok 235.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-10-08T00:47:32+00:00

    My apologies, Microsoft has slipstreamed an entire version number up, from 15.39 to 16.6, even though we are alleged on the same Office 2016 for Mac as previous. I wasn't on the Insider Fast releases, but saw it as soon as I switched my update options. I've moved your question back to the Office for Mac section.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-10-07T23:18:40+00:00

    Then I've got a more serious problem, because Outlook has changed my macOS machine to a Windows machine. ;-)

    Seriously though, I'm on the Office Insider Fast channel (perhaps this is the wrong place to post issues with these preview releases), and the About box states "Microsoft® Outlook for Mac" and "Version 16.6 (171004)".

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