How to disable Copilot for all applications - Mac

Anonymous
2024-12-12T11:30:03+00:00

I don't want to use the copilot features that have automatically been added to my Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PPT, etc.) - and I feel that this should be something that we are able to do, without having to purchase a subscription to copilot and then disable it.

How can I disable these features, to stop the shadow offer to use copilot on every new line I start on a word document and remove the icon from the tool bar?

This should be something that is an optional add on, rather than a mandated installation.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T19:34:00+00:00

    This is crazy. I use Word to write Medicolegal assessment reports. If the opposing side sees a draft of my report that looks like I used Copilot to write it, I will be shredded in court and risk losing my medical license and thus my livelihood. I wonder is MS will pay my legal fees and the next 20 years of lost income? MS, I would appreciate your input.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T19:17:20+00:00

    Went through the usual Microsoft multi hour time suck today- to be told they are aware of this issue of the prompt not going away after disabling. Was told it would be addressed in next update.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T19:14:49+00:00

    Just as Camille said, even if you do all the steps they say to do to disable Copilot, it actually DOESN’T disable Copilot. They’ve forced this AI app onto us even though WE DON’T WANT IT. Now we have to waste precious work time trying to get the stupid thing turned off.

    I’ve tried chatting with tech support. It says the service is “currently unavailable."

    I know what they’re thinking: “Our users are just naive stupid people who will resist this really great AI product but if we shove it down their throats and make them use it, then they will see how great it is and will thank us!"

    Wrong. This is a matter of consent. What is it that tech giants don’t get about that? Didn’t you learn from Apple’s snafu about shoving music into our music libraries against our will?

    PEOPLE WANT CONSENT. THEY WANT CONTROL. IGNORE OR VIOLATE THOSE PRECEPTS AND YOU WILL ELICIT RAGE IN YOUR USERS.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T19:10:58+00:00

    Just confirming that I've tried all of this in office 365 on a mac and the proposed solutions do not work.

    Everything in connected experiences is disabled, I've restarted, and I still cannot make this go away.

    Can anyone confirm a method to remove this from Word?

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T18:42:33+00:00

    It doesn't need to be so difficult to disable. But it is, and therefore, it's awful.

    I am wasting part of my day on this. I disabled the expermimental features but the prompts are still showing up in my Word doc despite having turned off and out of Word and turned it back on again.

    I did not ask for this. I do not want this. I have work to do.

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