


Method 2: Disable Hardware Graphic Acceleration for Office with Registry Tweak After making these changes, the system will automatically turn off hardware graphics acceleration on all the other Office programs like Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. Click OK to save the settings and restart your PC.In the right-hand pane, scroll down to the Display section and check the box that says Disable hardware graphics acceleration. Click the File tab and then choose Options in the left pane. Method 1: Disable Hardware Graphic Acceleration from within Office Application Here are 2 ways to disable hardware graphics acceleration in Office 2019 / 2016 / 2013.

If you experienced crash, slowness, blurred text and cursor hanging when running Office, turning off hardware graphics acceleration should solve the problem. Starting with Microsoft Office 2013, hardware graphics acceleration is enabled by default, which moves all graphics and text rendering from CPU to GPU (a chip on your graphics card) for getting better performance, but it may also increase the burden on the graphic card.
