When clicking into a cell of a Excel 2013 sheet, the green border of the cell is animated while moving from the current cell to the new one.
This is really disturbing. How can I disable this animation?
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When clicking into a cell of a Excel 2013 sheet, the green border of the cell is animated while moving from the current cell to the new one.
This is really disturbing. How can I disable this animation?
Best Answer
There is a registry setting that allows you to disable all animations across Office 2013 (thus not affecting other programs). It is explained in simple terms here: [Tip] Improve Microsoft Office 2013 Performance by Disabling Unnecessary Animations. There's a download at the end of the post with the corresponding
.reg
files to enable or disable animations; just double click on the "disable animations" one.In summary:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Graphics
DisableAnimations
in that key and set its value to 1There's no way to selectively disable some of Office 2013 animations; it's an all-or-nothing proposition. sotong's answer to this question disables all animations across Windows.
EDIT
For those who don't have access to the
regedit
UI due to user privileges, this can also be done from the command line. Use (Win)+R, run cmd then paste in for Office 2013:For Office 2016:
(all on one line).