[m_gloeckl]

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.

[Quppa]

Office 2013 introduced these animations. Sadly, it also ditched ClearType in most of the UI.

[JensRex]

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.

[cm2187]

Exactly, office 2016 is office 2010 with another color scheme and "new features" like this...