Microsoft Office 365 and Office (32 bit) (odt4DA4.tmp.exe) high CPU usage Windows 10

This suggestion unfortunately doesn't help with this issue - the Office settings mentioned aren't present in Microsoft 365.

I have the same issue as the OP, same process, also causing my fan to go crazy. When I sort by CPU usage in task manager, it's almost always the top consumer. And if I "end task" the process, it starts itself back up.

Redditors are also asking this question: https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/18xo0ye/persistent\_high\_cpu\_usage\_by\_mysterious\_microsoft/

It would be great to figure out what it's doing that's so important that it needs to eat up our CPUs...

This is also happening to me, started a few weeks ago. This is an MS issue as these posts indicate - can a solution be posted please.

Hi Yogesh

I'm AnnaThomas and I'd happily help you with your question. In this Forum, we are Microsoft consumers just like yourself no one here is a Microsoft employee.

“In this article ( http://answers.microsoft.com/thread/13d98e42-7965-47b3-8cbd-18dd76dabae3 ), Rohn007 shows the solution to the problem can be solved by following these steps: “

HARDWARE ACCELERATION - COMBO OF OPTIONS TO BE INVESTIGATED / CHANGED https://answers.microsoft.com/thread/b2656170-a2cd-47d5-8f22-35ab6027d3df?page=4&msgId=99dbb0f8-74b5-49d9-b4fc-59dd2dd15337

https://support.office.com/help/52bd7985-4e99-4a35-84c8-2d9b8301a2fa

I systematically went through every single option disabling things that might effect it, and the dumbest solution and dumbest option for me was simple... . By “toggle”, I mean change current setting, for these 2 or 3 options (depending on version) try all of the combinations of the settings on and off. The specific options you see depend on the Office application and its year (2010/2013/2016).

1.            Go to File menu > Options command > Advanced option
   

2.            In the Display section:
   

Toggle the check box for “Disable Hardware Acceleration” (2010 / 2013 / 2016)

3.            Also try toggling the check box for “Use subpixel positioning to smooth fonts on screen” (2013 / 2016)
   

4.            In the General section >
   

Toggle the check box for “feedback animation” (2010 / 2013?)

5.            Apply the changes by clicking on Ok button at bottom of the dialog box
   

6.            Close Word normally
   

7.            Restart Word”
   

I hope this helps ;-), let me know if this is contrary to what you need, I would still be helpful to answer more of your questions.

Best Regards,

AnnaThomas

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Deleting the files from c:\windows\temp mentioned in this thread worked for me. CPU/fan back to normal with no offending Office processes running.

Thx!

Me too! Help please MS. The fans noise disturbes a lot !!!!