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The latest Microsoft 365 Update has added a Copilot function to Word. Now every time I create a new paragraph, a little copilot symbol appears in the left-hand margin prompting me to use copilot. It is extremely annoying and distracting. How do I stop this symbol appearing, or better, remove copilot from Word?
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Anonymous
2024-12-07T02:30:32+00:00 -
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2024-12-08T08:32:03+00:00 Hi Charlotte.
Mine is a private subscription, so there may be complications to yours I'm unaware of. All I can suggest is that your IT people look at the directions in Ian.L - MSFT's post on November 3, 2024, and which other MS posters in other threads have given too; it worked for me.
The next annoyance was dealing with the subscription. Other users have indicated success here (only with the help of Support!), and have "reverted" their subscription to the "Classic" version, that is without Copilot. That option was not available to me for some inexplicable reason. After a chat session with Support, then as they directed by a chat with Sales, I had to cancel my subscription with the promise that before expiry in mid Feb 2025 there will be an invitation email to renew, and the option of choosing "Classic" will be available.
As I said elsewhere - a convoluted waste of my time dealing with something that should not have been inflicted on me without me actively choosing it.
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Anonymous
2024-12-08T08:34:24+00:00 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.
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Anonymous
2024-12-11T10:36:03+00:00 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,
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Anonymous
2024-12-15T23:41:31+00:00 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.