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

There is no option to select a simpler/downgraded/leaner/Classic/dumb version at the moment - hopefully there will be in future (for $40 less per year too!)

When I go to Services & Subscriptions in my Microsoft Account I can’t see any option to downgrade my subscription. You can cancel your subscription, or turn off recurring billing, but there are only two Microsoft 365 subscriptions available to choose from: Personal (for 1 person) or Family (for up to 6 people):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products

I have Family and it has gone up in price from $140 to $180 per year.

Hi Hannah - followed these steps yesterday, and co-pilot is still installed.

Please advise how I can permanently remove it. Seriously frustrating...

Thanks

Steve

Thanks for your work on this.
Re Option A, if you do this, you lose some functionality eg can't save a word doc as a PDF. Not sure what else, but it's too fraught for me to contemplate. I need this, and can't be doing with turning it on and off.

I like your idea of using Pages instead to minimise Word use.

I just need that annoying animated icon to disappear. Did they learn nothing from the hated Clippy??

I have not updated my Microsoft on Mac (auto updates are turned OFF) yet somehow Copilot magically appeared and now I cannot get rid of it! The steps provided do not work (Copilot does not come up on the right side following the steps above). This is SUPER frustrating as Microsoft is illegally making changes to my computer and I have zero control over that! It should be an opt-in, not just someone sitting at Microsoft HQ spreading this rubbish everywhere with the push of a button and then make it absolutely impossible to remove!

I'm using the new Sequoia and there's no feature under Preferences that says 'Add-ins'. It's only on the toolbar when I open a Word document. And when I click on the 'Add-ins' button there is no CoPilot there. It's like CoPilot is not considered an Add-in. It's built in to the updated system!