Disable animations in office 365

Is there any way to disable the animations that Microsoft has enabled by default in office 365?

It seems that ticking 'Turn off all unnecessary animations (when possible)' no longer does the trick. It was working fine around 2 days ago, and then it seems that office got updated, together with the new loading animation.

I have made sure that this function is still ticked, however this now changes completely nothing. Since this is a new behaviour I couldn't find anything on the Internet, other than 'tick turn off all unnecessary animations in ease of use'. I couldn't find anything in Office settings which would disable those animations.

If this helps I am running Windows 7.

Solution 1:

I found this to work for various versions, up to the latest version of Word. But please note that this will affect ALL Office applications, not only Word! I'm actually copying & adapting from this page on askvg.com . If you don't feel to edit the registry yourself, you can download the necessary automatic script from that link. Otherwise, take the following steps:

1. Close any office application.

2. Press "WIN+R" key combination to launch RUN dialog box then type regedit and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor and go to following key:

For Office 2013: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common

For Office 2016, 2019 & 365: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common

3. Check if there is a key "Graphics" existing. If not, right-click on Common key and select New -> Key option. It'll create a new key, set its name as Graphics

4. Now in right-side pane, create a new DWORD DisableAnimations and set its value to 1

5. Close Registry Editor and open any Office application. Changes are instant: no more animations and effects.

6. If you want to restore default animations, change value of DisableAnimations to 0 or simply delete the DWORD.

Solution 2:

Disabling the hardware acceleration as mentioned by tomasz86 helped in Word. It looked like an update tried to make page scrolling smooth or something.

I would just add (to make it easier to find - at least in Office 365) that the path to the option is:

File > Options > Advanced > Display (this subsection has the "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" option to check)

Solution 3:

To disable animations in Office 365, use regedit and navigate to this key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Graphics].

Then add a new DWORD with name DisableAnimations and value 1.

This should disable all annoying animations Office-wide. I've found this is the only way to stop the annoying folder opening / closing animations in Outlook.

To disable the annoying animations in Excel, there is an option in File / Options / Ease of Access called Provide feedback with animation that can be deselected.