How to disable Copilot for all applications - Mac

I fully agree that the obtrusive demonic implementation of A[nimated] I[diocy] needs to be slain but as yet there is no known way of doing so. It's impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.

Please use Help> Feedback in the program menu bar to submit your comments to the development group. Also, go to the Word category on the Feedback Portal & cast as many votes as you can for as many similar postings you can find.

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Take heart, though. The Copilot icon which appears adjacent to each new paragraph isn't a part of the document, so even if you could kill it on your Mac it still would appear on other systems if the users haven't done the same. That's another aspect of the insidious problem — in most cases there's no simple way for recipients to tell whether AI has been used.

Thanks for the reply, but the tools haven't worked.

Using Microsoft Office for Mac

V 16.29

Licence Microsoft 365 subscription

If you have any other suggestions, I would welcome them.

From Word> Preferences - Copilot clear the check for automatic summary... That may help.

Please provide the present Version Number & type of License as indicated in Word> About Microsoft Word.

I can confirm that this drastic solution works (and add the further detail that you can turn off Automatic Updates from Word's top-line Help/Check for Updates menu; this opens AutoUpdate, and you can simply uncheck the box for automatic updating):

• Open Word and turn off automatic updates.
• Delete the Word app.
• Go to this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac
• Download this version of Word: 16.89.1 (24091630), September 17, 2024
• Install new version of Word.
• Open it, quit, open it again.
• Success! For me anyway, the copilot icon has vanished and I'm back to Word working as I want it to.

When Microsoft fixes this absurd setting, we can presumably go back to automatic updates.

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you just keep posting the same rubbish responses that do not work. imagine any other service - ***

Even though some people answering here are Microsoft Agents, they are not Microsoft. They are, though, real people trying their best to help users.

See also: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-do-i-turn-off-copilot-in-ms-word-on-mac/0ba0edf9-2a80-4d8b-9af9-bb87e8ae6c7d That is essentially a parallel thread.

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