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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.
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Indeed, I just upgraded and PRESTO! The annoying smooth scrolling to the right of typed characters is gone.
Please extend a big THANK YOU to the MS team for fixing this quickly.
Vincent