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Registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\_version_\Common\Graphics

DisableAnimations

When using the arrow key or ctrl + arrow key, the cursor glides over characters or words which I find a nuisance. This behaviour can be stopped by setting DisableAnimations to 1: 
$officeVersion = (get-item hklm:\Software\Classes\excel.application\curVer).getValue('')  -replace '.*\.(\d+)', '$1'

$regKey = "hkcu:\Software\Microsoft\Office\$officeVersion.0\Common\Graphics"

if (! (test-path $regKey ) ){
  write-host "creating $regKey"
  $null = new-item $regKey
}

$null = new-itemProperty $regKey -name DisableAnimations  -value 1 -force
Github repository about-Windows-Registry, path: /HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/application_version/Common/Graphics/DisableAnimations.ps1

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