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

I have been unable to remove Copilot from Word. None of the stated solutions are actually to be found in my Word. I refuse to be forced to download a ridiculous amount of data in uninstalling and reloading the Office suite as has been suggested.

Like other people have noted, some of us do work where it is ESSENTIAL that NO AI be associated with it in any way. People in this situation face having years of work and credibility being thrown out the window.

Getting this at least completely deactivated from with Word and the rest of the Office suite is frankly vital for some of us who are actually paying for this 'service.'

Unless this is resolved VERY quickly, I shall be forced to cancel all subscriptions and find some other products. I would rather not be forced to do that.

I have family 365. It's so infuriating. I have tried all the suggestions so far, and none worked. Microsoft, Google and Apple are all guilty of forcing stupid 'features' on users.

The other super annoying and persistent 'feature' of OneDrive is 'For You' which shows random photos from your account whenever you open the app on a PC or phone. Who doesn't have pics they don't want suddenly on display for anyone in eyesight?

Likewise. I've never activated this ****. As a professional writer/editor, this just gets in the way and I want it removed completely. There is no function to deactivate it! I've deleted the CP app, I've never activated the thing, but it suddenly appeared on my word doc today. It's obviously spying on keystrokes. I want it gone from my apps.

This is really poor development. I have paid for a Microsoft Office 365 subscription for 5 years, and Microsoft just pushes these useless apps on users without any way to disable them. It’s truly ridiculous and annoying. Please fix this, or I won’t continue paying for these apps in the future.

thank you for bothering to share when you are clearly busy. I too cannot afford to have this interference and also want to remove copilot. i have no idea how to do as you suggest here ...

I have ended up reverting to the previous semi-annual build which doesn’t have the copilot auto built in to MS

can you or ANYONE PLEASE share how I can revert to a previous build.

in gratitude

sue

There’s no way I could find today to ‘turn Copilot off’ after it happened to me too, the previous suggestions including group controls, regedit etc. don’t work. I have Win 11 Pro with 365 Personal. I have ended up reverting to the previous semi-annual build which doesn’t have the copilot auto built in to MS Word. I am a PhD student nearly about to submit my thesis and cannot under any circumstances have AI anywhere near it otherwise it will be an automatic fail of four years of my life. It’s that serious.

Microsoft - Copilot NEEDS, absolutely needs, to be able to be functionally turned off for standard users. Please do not put university students at risk. I have been a university lecturer and marker this year too, and accidental AI use in non-AI subjects by students because it’s just sitting there in the software right at the in-line prompt when they are typing, leads to academic misconduct referrals, which is incredibly stressful for students and unnecessarily time consuming for staff. There are some university subjects where AI isn’t yet appropriate - universities are working towards integration but there are parts of some skills that have to be generated separately from AI right now. Please let us have the choice to turn it on and off, so students can turn it off while writing assignments, and turn it on for other uses.