Office 2013: Deactivate animations in Word, Excel and Co.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Co. have included numerous animations since Office 2013, but you can deactivate them again. We'll show you how it's done.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint: Switch off animations in Office 2013

The animations are hardly noticeable in normal use, but they can lead to delays in larger calculations.

1. If you press the [Windows] and [U] keys simultaneously, the Center for Ease of Use opens.
2. Under "Show all settings" you will now find the item "Use a computer without a screen".
3. Activate the option "Deactivate all unnecessary animations (if possible)".
4. With the "OK" button, your settings are saved and the animations in Word and Co. are switched off.

Office 2013 & 2016: Deactivate animations

If the above instructions do not work, you can also make the change manually in the registry:

1. Press the [Windows] and [R] keys simultaneously so that the "Execute" command opens.
2. Enter "regedit" and confirm with "OK". Then the registry editor starts.
3. Navigate to the following path on the left: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Office \ 15.0 \ Common \ Graphics
4. If the "Graphics" folder does not exist, right-click on "Commons" and create the folder using "New" and "Key".
5. Open the "Graphics" folder and right-click on the free space on the right.
6. Under "New" select "DWORD value (32-bit)" and name it "DisableAnimations".
7. Then open the value by double-clicking and change the value to one (1).
8. Confirm with "OK", close the window and restart Windows. The animations are then deactivated in Office 2013.

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