Toggling "DisableAnimations" registry edit for Excel 2013 animations

[L33]

Hi all,

My work has finally given us Windows 8.1 and Office 2013 Professional Plus. But new Excel was giving me severe motion sickness because I'm always Ctrl-arrowing to navigate around a worksheet.

I found several webpages that described a registration edit that disables the animations (How To Code: Office 2013: Disable transition and cursor animations) which has improved the experience considerably. But although I want to prevent the cell selector navigation animations, I actually like the smooth, flowing transitions that charts display when their source data is changed.

I know this isn't strictly an Excel question, but does anyone know of a way to toggle the registration edit described at that link on and off? Either a desktop shortcut, or - to make this post more Excel centric - a VBA solution that'd interact with the registry and could be activated from a macro-assigned QAT button? That way I could perhaps switch between "developer" and "presentation" modes..?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.


EDIT: You know what - I just re-read the webpage I found the edit on, and it says you have to reboot for the change to take effect, so a VBA solution here almost certainly couldn't work.

 

[mole999]

This seems to be the only way

[h=1]Turn off Office animations[/h] <section class="ocpIntroduction">Office 2013 is the first release to use hardware acceleration throughout the user experience to deliver beautiful, fluid animations. However, if you use your computer without a display or you simply prefer to eliminate unnecessary animations, you have the choice to turn them off.
</section><section class="ocpSection">To turn off Office animations

1. Open the Ease of Access Center by pressing the Windows logo key + U.
   
2. Under Explore all settings, click Use the computer without a display.
   
3. Under Adjust time limits and flashing visuals, click Turn off all unnecessary animations (when possible).
   
   
4. Click OK.
   
   It should ease the business environment
   

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