Remove Copilot from Word

Thank you for this solution. After hours of time wasted on Youtube tutorials and other incorrect resolution steps, your workaround actually works and is easy to follow!

Copilot is imposing and in no way 'helpful' to me. It's astonishing how Microsoft have not made it simple to disable/enable. I would love to discuss this with that 1 customer who suggested this feature would be a great addition to everyone's MS Office product and that it should be VERY difficult to remove/disable. Ridiculous how we have to sit on an outdated version of MS Office just so we don't have to deal with this imposing - and not at all useful - tool!

In any case, thanks heaps for the solution. At least it's a proper workaround!

Hi All,

If this method is not working for you, make sure you have all Microsoft products closed before following these instructions -- this includes Microsoft Edge! Otherwise Microsoft will simply immediately re-install the latest version of Word and undo all your hard work.

Copy these instructions into Notebook if Edge is your only browser and then try the steps again. If a screen pops up claiming it's "updating" Word -- you know it's worked. Wait for the "update" to finish (it can take a long time), disable automatic updates, and then reboot Word, and Copilot should have disappeared for good.

Kind regards

Holly

This is an appalling situation. Copilot does not help me one bit and it is slowing down my productivity in a way that is making me very angry. It is outrageous that MS should impose this burden on people who are paying to have software that helps them to do their work. THIS IS NOT HELPING. Please urgently produce an update with an easy option to turn Co-pilot on or off. If your coders can't do that, they should be fired. If you don't want to do it, you should be fired.

Ian, I assume that you are trying to help those of us who are apoplectic about Copilot being thrust upon us without any choice in the matter. I appreciate your efforts. (I'm not into conspiracy theories, but can you assure me that you are, in fact, human and not some AI algorithm? Your written English sounds stilted to me so I'm suspicious. Please don't take offence... if you are indeed human.... I'm just curious .)

The main point I wish to make though is this: Copilot (and other AI for that matter) need to be made optional. And one shouldn't have to be a techno-boffin and spend hours trying tofigure out and follow arcane instructions as to how to get around the problem.

Cheers,

Are the ACCC on to it?

Hi Timothy.

Some of us have reported to the ACCC, but it takes a while for a report to be processed and for a reply to be sent - about 2 weeks. So, we'll see what happens.