What's with this new feature? It's so annoying to wait until something "fades in" like a movie scene before you can see what you click.

Is there a way to get rid of it?

Thanks!

I think this is a Windows setting; does it happen to all your Office programs? If so, try this:

1: Click on control panel
2: Click on view by: Large Icons
3: Click on "Performance Information and tools"
4: Click on adjust "Visual effects"
5: There will be three line items showing the word "Fade" as the first character string on each line. Uncheck the box in front of each of those three lines and then "OK" everything and back out.

That didn't work. It must be a Outlook feature. The one you mentioned seems to work for like File Explorer and such. But it wasn't as slow, or I didn't really use it that much so I didn't actually notice it. This one is like when you change to another folder in Outlook, the email lists fades in before you can see it. And interestingly, if there's only a few items (not enough to fill the box), there's a black box in the place of the list before the emails appear. I checked some common stuff in Word and Onenote and I didn't see this fade effect.