Excel 2013 animation feature....
 

Just updated to Office 2013 and opened a spreadsheet that I have
developed only to find it now ran like dog. You could literally watch
the movement when you changed cells. Apparently this version has
animation built in.

There is a fix but it's not intuitive.

It involves going to the Ease of Access centre in Control panel.
You select use the computer without a display and then tick the checkbox
turn off unnecessary animation. Voila your spreadsheet responds quickly
again.

Why Microsoft WHY???

Excel 2013 animation feature....
 

"XR8 Sprintless" wrote in message
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Just updated to Office 2013 and opened a spreadsheet that I have developed
only to find it now ran like dog. You could literally watch the movement
when you changed cells. Apparently this version has animation built in.

There is a fix but it's not intuitive.

It involves going to the Ease of Access centre in Control panel.
You select use the computer without a display and then tick the checkbox
turn off unnecessary animation. Voila your spreadsheet responds quickly
again.

Why Microsoft WHY???

Indeed! That said I don't think how it affects how it actually runs in terms
of calculation etc.

But instead of changing system settings could add this

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Graphic s\DisableAnimations
value 1

May need to add a key for Graphics and DWord for DisableAnimations

Regards,
Peter T

Excel 2013 animation feature....
 

On 10/06/2014 11:36 PM, Peter T wrote:
"XR8 Sprintless" wrote in message
...
Just updated to Office 2013 and opened a spreadsheet that I have developed
only to find it now ran like dog. You could literally watch the movement
when you changed cells. Apparently this version has animation built in.

There is a fix but it's not intuitive.

It involves going to the Ease of Access centre in Control panel.
You select use the computer without a display and then tick the checkbox
turn off unnecessary animation. Voila your spreadsheet responds quickly
again.

Why Microsoft WHY???

Indeed! That said I don't think how it affects how it actually runs in terms
of calculation etc.

It does affect data entry though albeit in a minor annoying way.

But instead of changing system settings could add this

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Graphic s\DisableAnimations
value 1

May need to add a key for Graphics and DWord for DisableAnimations


Thanks for that. It works. Surely Microsoft could have had a tickbox in
the options menu to disable it. It's definitely not intuitive.

Also this disable animations across the whole office platform not just
in excel.