But if you find this feature to be unnecessary, or if it is causing problems with the way that Word 2013 is working on your computer, then you might decide that you would like to turn it off. Our guide below will show you where to find this setting so that you can turn it on or off at will.  

How to Stop Word 2013 from Showing a Preview of Style Changes

The steps in this article will adjust the settings in Microsoft Word 2013 so that the program no longer updates the appearance of your document when you hover over a style change. If you discover later on that you actually found this setting to be useful, then you can follow these same steps to find the option again and turn it back on.  

   

        Do you share a computer with someone else, and you do not want them to see a list of the documents that you have been editing? You can change the number of recent documents shown in Word 2013 to zero so that none of them will be shown within the Word 2013 program. After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science he spent several years working in IT management for small businesses. However, he now works full time writing content online and creating websites. His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well. Read his full bio here.

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