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

Same problem as everyone else here... now I get this message

We encountered a problem validating your Copilot license. For more information, see https://aka.ms/copilotlicensecheck

I NEVER ASKED FOR COPILOT! WHY WOULD I WANT A LICENCE?

Hi team,

The solution doesn't work. I logged into my Subscriptions account, and it tells me Co-pilot is not purchased. But I still have the co-pilot icon appearing in my Word and PPT documents. This is such an annoying invasion of privacy. How can I be sure Co-pilot isn't AI stealing information from my documents? Please help me get Co-pilot off my PC. I didn't ask for this and I didn't choose it. It just appeared on my documents suddenly. Please help me resolve.

Thanks

alan

Unfortunately, your success has not been mine, although I wanted to thank you for giving me hope.

I have a Family sub that I no longer need, but found today that I lose my TB of cloud storage if I resort to Single, so here I remain, with a regrettable rise in product and service dissatisfaction.

I have also discovered today that my annual sub will rise by 29% in 2025. It is the first major rise in years. If it's to pay for a program (co-pilot) that is proving to be not just controversial but infuriatingly intrusive, then I will add to the rapidly growing list of subscribers who are, to put it mildly, disappointed enough to appeal on this chatline, hoping that MS reads, hears and acts with genuine consumer interest and ethic.

MS, if you're really reading and hearing the appeals, please provide a super friendly - accurate - option to remove co-pilot and reduce the sub accordingly, if applicable. Indeed, make it clear that you're asking us and make it clear we can say NO! I would even accept having the option to ask for reminders every 6 months or more.

Of all the programs you have chosen to inflict on users (your customers and clients), you have chosen the most controversial!

Along with scores of others, I absolutely do not want what is proving to be a pestilent invasion! I might, in future, want it and to have the option to simply turn it on, within 5 minutes max, or even pay for an upgrade after a trial, but MS's decision to impose this system - incessantly - on people is, frankly and disappointingly, obnoxious!

Finally, while I'm here (for the first time), I'm astounded that for all MS's sophistication and global dominance, it's system does not recognise that when I've signed in, I clearly have a 365 subscription, so why on earth do the pages I'm on keep asking me to buy or sign up? I understand if I haven't signed in, but really MS!

To Microsoft

Copilot can't be turned off!? Are you serious!!!

This is an absolute disgrace!

I don't want that Copilot icon constantly appearing on my Word documents, on every new line, whenever I highlight something - it's VERY annoying!!!

And I don't want the icon in my Ribbon either - now I can't easily use "Heading 2" because there is no room for it on the Ribbon, now that Copilot is taking up important space on the Ribbon.

I pay my yearly MS subscription and you go and do this to me!

I'll be cancelling my subscription before the next rebill if you don't fix this $@&#.

And to top it off a Microsoft 365 Family subscription has just gone up from $140 per year to $180 per year! (Australia)

Please tell me how you remove the icon from the ribbon?