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

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

11 answers

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-13T03:29:07+00:00

    Hi David,

    Thanks for taking a stab at it, but this is NOT a PowerPoint animation issue.

    The actual issue is the "Office animations" of text being displayed during text input in all of the products.  The text display is slowly wipe revealed as pixel by pixel (like smooth scrolling) as the text is typed.

    Please do not consider this an answer to the concern being mentioned, you have given a perfectly correct but irrelevant answer.

    Thank you,

    Vincent

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  2. John Korchok 234.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-10-07T23:04:46+00:00

    Version 16.6 (171004) is the Windows version, not Mac. I've moved your post to a more appropriate forum, where you may receive an answer.

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-12T05:07:54+00:00

    Looks like the "sliding" text cursor animation is gone from Outlook for Mac 16.7 (171008). I think I'm supposed to use the smiley-face feedback button to provide these comments to the support team, so I'll do that from now on.

    Was this answer helpful?

    1 person found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  4. John Korchok 234.9K 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.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  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)".

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments