How to disable copilot on microsoft office (excel, word, ppt) on Macbook

Nope - it was gone for half an hour and now this evil rubbish is back after it asked for a restart. I have done this procedure 3 times now and each time it disappears briefly, only to come right back.

Many thousands of people on this thread and others have also reported ABSOLUTELY HATING MICROSOFT COPILOT and its invasion of privacy. They are calling it corporate abuse of the worst kind. They are having no success removing it with this provided answer. But here is one that DOES work from Tanya_55. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

To all frustrated respondents to this post, I have found a way to turn it off!!!!

It is in this article: Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps for home: Your data and privacy

At the bottom, under "Your Privacy Settings and CoPilot" is listed what you need to do:

i.e.: Open any of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, or OneNote

Click File then select Account (at the bottom, above Feedback and Options)

On your Account page, under Account Privacy click the Manage Settings button

Then, under "Connected Experiences" you need to turn off:

• Experiences that analyse content, and
• All connected experiences

Click OK

You will be warned about all the bells and whistles you're going to miss out on, but its so easy to turn on and off, you could, for instance, turn them off, write and submit your thesis, then turn them on again?

There is some semblance of control after all!

I only use Excel and Word but CoPilot is no longer interupting my edits in either!

Please note: As far as I know, this applies only when you’re using Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps for home*.*

Do that - cancel your subscription.

When you do, you will probably be offered an incentive to stay. I was offered two months' free, and someone else was offered one month free.

I can't remember which came first - if I said 'no' to that, or if I scrolled down the page and saw an option to change my account to 'classic' (I think that's what it's called). Maybe I had to say 'no' to the offer before I saw the option to change my account.

Anyway, the 'classic' account is the same price as before the recent increase, and drops CoPilot and that annoying little thing on the side of Word documents.

Downside: you do have to wait until your current month expires (or possibly current year, if you have an annual sub) before it takes effect.

For me, that was the 28th. However, the change did not occur until 29th.

I no longer have CoPilot (which I never wanted) *and* the cost did not increase.

Not great customer service to have to jump through hoops to get rid of something you never wanted, though.

Interesting. I just went and did the same thing and it just unsubscribed me. The offer is currently 1 month free to resubscribe. No mention of the option to go back to classic.

Wonder if they took that off? I'm in Australia and it's 30 Nov.

I'm going to wait to see what happens when my re-subscribe date comes up in April 2025.

Thanks for this, appreciate the help! It's gone now from my ribbon, but I still get the frustrating little Copilot icon at the start of every line 'asking' if it can take over my humanity. *sigh* It is RIDICULOUS that you can remove it from the ribbon, turn off all the privacy items and STILL have it there! I have 'downgraded' to the Word version without all this BS (that costs the same as the pre-Copilot price), but that will still be a couple of weeks off. Wish I could just change to another program altogether, but I have clients who need me to use it.