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

Thank you so much for this! It has partially worked. I still have the stupid icon at the start. of. every. goddamn. line. I. type. It's like 1984 or something!

EDIT: I closed and reopened Word and it's back properly, despite those options all being deselected, so ... didn't work. Mac Sonoma.

Microsoft – you going to sort this rubbish out already please?

SUCCESS!!!

To all frustrated respondents to this post, I have found a way to turn it off!!!!

It is in this article: Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps for home: Your data and privacy

At the bottom, under "Your Privacy Settings and CoPilot" is listed what you need to do:

i.e.: Open any of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, or OneNote

Click File then select Account (at the bottom, above Feedback and Options)

On your Account page, under Account Privacy click the Manage Settings button

Then, under "Connected Experiences" you need to turn off:

• Experiences that analyse content, and
• All connected experiences

Click OK

You will be warned about all the bells and whistles you're going to miss out on, but its so easy to turn on and off, you could, for instance, turn them off, write and submit your thesis, then turn them on again?

There is some semblance of control after all!

I only use Excel and Word but CoPilot is no longer interupting my edits in either!

Please note: As far as I know, this applies only when you’re using Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps for home*.*

Thank you for these tips.

I turned off "experiences that analyse content", however I had to turn back on the "all connected experiences" because otherwise I couldn't load files stored on onedrive.

Copilot is now sitting in the the ribbon in word and excel and I can't remove it without removing Editor. So in effect I cannot turn off copilot and there's an annoying prompt every time I start a new line of text in Word.

It's extremely rude of Microsoft not to have copilot optional. I didn't ask for it and I want it removed altogether.

Just adding more support to the call for Microsoft to add the ability to fully disable Copilot in all Mac OS versions of 365. It's unacceptable that we should have this forced upon us when we pay a subscription for the service.

The helpful tips here aren't working for me either - but thanks. All I can find is a page telling me how to unsubscribe from Copilot for 'money back' within a certain window of time. BUT I NEVER SUBSCRIBED to it and do not want it. I had better not be paying for it! I actually can't write with that damn icon in the margin, it's incredibly off-putting. I'm so glad it wasn't there when I was writing my PhD thesis, or it would literally have driven me crazy. Let us keep protesting it until they change it!

I agree. It's awful, and I don't want it.

I just want to write, I don't want all that noisy **** and I certainly don't want to supply gazillionaire companies with my intellectual property for free. I pay them a $$$ sub, then they annoy me with AI pests on each page so that they can grow richer?! It's not exactly fair. Grrrr!