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

I posted this earlier—and I'm working in a Mac, so things may be different in your PC, but basically you have three options: you can (1) purchase and download Office 2021 and unsubscribe from Office 365, (2) you can disable Copilot within Office 365, or (3) revert your Office 365 subscription to "classic" no-AI-enabled version.

To disable Copilot on a PC while retaining the current Office 365 subscription, you're going to go into Settings, click Personalization, go into Taskbar, and you will find a switch to toggle Copilot off there. Just be aware that with this method, you're going to be paying $30 more for the option of using Copilot, which will remain active im your subscription.

To obtain the "classic" version, you're going to log into your Microsoft account, navigate to the Subscriptions menu, and tell Microsoft you wish to cancel your Office 365 subscription. This will trigger Microsoft to give you options for AI-enabled (Copilot) OR AI-disabled ("classic") Office 365. Select the latter and your "classic" subscription sans Copilot will be initiated. Note that the Copilot icon will still appear in the top menu when you open Word etc., but it will be grayed out.

MICROSOFT - get you Q#$% together on this - we don't like change, we don't like change, we don't like change. Remove Co Pilot from Word OR let us turn it off -

Very annoying - is this part of the China issue you are having ?

Please, please can you tell me how to stop Copilot icon appearing everywhere: Notes, Word emails....
I have followed the step but there is nothing on that page mentioning the word Copilot.

This is driving me nuts. I did not request it and I do not want it.

Can you point to a way of totally removing it from our PC. We have office 365 and this is affecting my husband too. He is not as PC literate as me and is finding this very distracting and wholly unwanted.

Thank you for your help and assistance.

Yours, desparately, Anna

Thank you SO MUCH.

So now at this point I know there are two three options: you can (1) purchase and download Office 2021 and unsubscribe from Office 365, OR (2) you can now disable Copilot within Office 365. The third option I just learned about is (3) revert your Office 365 subscription to "classic" no-AI-enabled version.

To obtain the "classic" version, you're going to log into your Microsoft account, navigate to the Subscriptions menu, and tell Microsoft you wish to cancel your Office 365 subscription. This will trigger Microsoft to give you options for AI-enabled (Copilot) OR AI-disabled ("classic") Office 365. Select the latter and your "classic" subscription sans Copilot will be initiated. Note that the Copilot icon will still appear in the top menu when you open Word etc., but it will be grayed out.

For those looking for the option to disable Copilot on a Mac in Office 365 without giving up the option of using Copilot, here's what you need to do:

1. In any Office product, go into the main menu (so, in Word, the menu called Word), and click the About tab. You'll get a pop-up that gives all the info about what version of the software you're using.
2. Click the More Info tab on the pop-up. You'll see your device and license codes plus two live links, License Terms and Third Party Notices, then a button that says Refresh License. Click this button. You will be prompted to log into your Microsoft Office 365 account. Do so.
3. Having refreshed your license, you're now going to close out of all Office products and restart the one you were in to refresh the license.
4. Open the Preferences tab. You should now see a Copilot option under Authoring and Proofing tools in Word. Click this link.
5. There is only one item within the Copilot option, which is "Enable Copilot", and it's clicked by default. Unclick it. You've now disabled Copilot.

Personally, I've gone with switching to the classic subscription for the time being. My subscription doesn't renew till December, so I have time to figure out if the pros & cons of having a subscription outweigh the pros & cons of downloading Office 2021 versus maybe switching to one of the Open Office options out there. I'm so sick of big tech companies shoving AI down our throats that this might just be the end of my decades-long loyalty to MS Word.

Are you sober now?

Bit late in the piece to be broadcasting your ignorance Robert Watts3 - it's six months since this was posted. Hundreds of constructive replies later Microsoft has even taken some notice - no thanks to you.

Might have paid to look beyond the end of your nose before so blithely disparaging a genuine contribution to such a long and convoluted discussion.