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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by m_gloeckl on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:43AM (#12450550)
IIRC those animations have been introduced with the current version, Office 2016.

I think they make it really easy to follow, especially when someone else is editing and sharing their screen.

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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by Quppa on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:33AM (#12450985)
Office 2013 introduced these animations. Sadly, it also ditched ClearType in most of the UI.
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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by JensRex on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:28AM (#12452027)
Which is why I'm sticking with Office 2010.

Microsoft totally wrecked font rendering in Windows 10 (W8 too?). Edge browser doesn't have ClearType either, which is braindead for a program you spend so much time reading in.

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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by Quppa on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:44AM (#12452416)
Edge 14 in the Anniversary Update actually brings back ClearType support for at least some text, so there's still a glimmer of hope that Microsoft will work to improve text rendering in Windows. Raymond Chen had an interesting post on how subpixel scrolling makes ClearType smoothing impossible: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=...
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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by cm2187 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @02:31AM (#12450729)
Exactly, office 2016 is office 2010 with another color scheme and "new features" like this...
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