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I am using a Macbook Air, last week I tried the free trial of the copilot, but since I don't find it helpful, and even my word keeps on lagging, now I want to disable the copilot.
I have already tried to uninstall and reinstall Microsoft 365, and several tips on the internet, but none of them is working. The copilot is still there. and I find it so annoying.
Can someone help me to show me the way to disable the copilot, please?
Thank you!
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Thanks for that, after 40 odd minutes of growing frustration (I know I didn't have nowhere near the frustration you and other users on here have had) I have removed it from Excel. Let's hope it stays disabled.
Thanks for that. When I searched about disabling Copilot on Word that result came up and similarly with Edge I was able to Google an answer. But I am having trouble with disabling it on Excel. It's on the ribbon but I can't find it under the File/Options/Copilot like I did in word. When I actually ask Copilot in Excel how to disable it, not suggestions come up. When I Google a solution, I'm sent to this page which is mostly users frustrated posts about the inconvenience and audacity of installing it unasked and it affecting peoples professional work with hardly any responses from Microsoft.
This worked!
Thanks
And that is exactly what is totally wrong with this whole situation.
They added it without asking. Moved people onto a more expensive plan when they did so. Give people no option to control it.
The screenshot attached is when I search preferences on Mac for Copilot control.
Absolutely nothing.
This is wrong and harks back to the integrated Internet Explorer issue that cost Microsoft, what was it, nearly 1/2 a billion dollars, in anti-trust fines.
We can't do such things here in Australia but in the US you should be considering a class action.
It does not work for Office 365 MAC. There is nothing in the Options to turn off Copilot.