In office 2013 under windows 10, the text cursor appears to glide across the page smoothly, instead of advancing a character width at a time when I'm typing. I actually find this rather disconcerting, and watching it gives me something akin to motion sickness and screws up my typing big-time. Is there a way to disable this feature?
Windows – Is it possible to disable smooth movement of the cursor in Office 2013/windows 10
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Best Answer
Well, yes. There are two ways of doing this.
One is described in many places (here, for one) and goes like this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common
Graphics
key under thatCommon
key, right-click on the Common key and select New > Key. Type inGraphics
for the key name.Graphics
key selected, right-click on the right side of the editor and create a new DWORD value. Name itDisableAnimation
.DisableAnimation
value and change the value to1
. Hit OK and exit the editor, then restart Windows for it to take effect.Note that for Office 2016, the DWORD key is under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Graphics
and it should be calledDisableAnimations
(plural).The other way is through the System Performance Settings.
Edit: The latter method may look very different on Windows 10, sorry I missed that part.