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How do I TURN OFF the "Summary by Copilot banner that appears on every single email I receive in outlook?
I may, maybe once a year when tagged into a super long email thread try to get a summary... but 99.99% of the time I will never want to use this, as such the banner is annoying and consumes lots of valuable space where I could render my email.
How can I turn this off? or hide it by default?
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Can we stop the in fighting?
Let us focus on the goal.
Get rid of Copilot.
Thank you all.
oric307
I have MS 365 as a home, individual user. I use the online, browser version of outlook (outlook.com). I know how to read and write and neither need nor want Copilot on in any way. I have the banner and the try draft with Copilot. The latter seems to be a way for a corporation to harvest what people write in their emails, so no way will I ever use that. AI uses a great deal of energy, so these AI features, forced on users by several tech companies, are counterproductive re: energy resources.
I don't want to add a 3rd party chrome extension; those always come with baggage of their own and can be disallowed by Chrome and I'm sure by MS at some point.
Give us our freedom of choice in how to use and what to enable for the products we buy. What we are facing is a form of corporate dictation of behavior. We subscribers are the ones funding MS; why alienate the people who are already your customers?
Great suggestion. Click on the banner once and let it give the stupid copilot summary, then hit the "thumbs down" button and give microsoft the feedback to get rid of this worthless waste of space. I've already done it. The more people that do this, the more likely microsoft will do something.
Adding my voice as someone who woke up to this horrifying 'feature' and copilot sudden appeared like a tumour throughout my pc
Not wanted, not needed, not asked for, yet not removeable. Classic.
I have figured out a very, very simple workaround to kill this UI element on Chrome
1 - Install this plugin for Chrome, "Custom CSS by Denis" https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/custom-css-by-denis/cemphncflepgmgfhcdegkbkekifodacd
2 - While you are on any outlook page (ie, outlook.office.com), click the "CSS" icon in your Extensions list to launch the CSS editor
3 - The first time you open this extension on any particular site, you will see a permissions window first - "Need permission to edit outlook.office.com" - grant those permissions
4 - Click the CSS icon again, which will now show you a text box captioned "Styles for outlook.offfice.com"
5 - Enter this text in the box and press enter
.Yd98x {display:none!important;}
6 - If you are on a message detail window, you should see the Copilot Summary box disappear instantly.
7 - If you use multiple computers - you will have to authorize permissions for the extension on each machine, separately, but - after you grant permissions - if all of your machines are logged into the same Google account - the CSS you had saved on your first machine should already be loaded back up for your on the next machine.
8 - Cautions