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

I have exactly the same issue: have signed in, went to Services and subscriptions and no sign anywhere of 'copilot on the right side' to disable. It takes a huge amount to otherwise productive time to get rid of these annoying, distracting and uncalled for add-ins! Please Microsoft stop doing this to users.

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.

Regarding: How to disable MS Copilot from MS 365. I tried your instructions, but after clicking "Services and Subscriptions", I am not seeing "copilot on the right side" (on my Services and Subscriptions" page) to disable. If helpful, the top of my Services and Subscriptions page implies that I am using "Microsoft 365 Personal". Thank you for any clarification how I can disable MS Copilot from my MS 365 subscription. ******@hotmail.com

Hi Hannah, thank you for your reply.

I have already completed the steps you mentioned. The option on the copilot service is to manage the recurring billing, and it's already turned off. However, the copilot on my Word is still active.

Is there any other way to uninstall or deactivate the copilot from Word?

Regards,

Bubud

I didn't opt-in to Copilot, it just turned up in the latest update. I dont like it at all! And I want to disable it but looking around at all the the answers here, I have found no way of disabling it.