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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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I have done all of the things suggested above. Nothing works. Microsoft - FIX THIS POW!! No one wants it.
This is beyond frustrating. The suggestions from Microsoft to turn off Copilot from my Office for Mac do not work.
It has reappeared with a vengeance on Word. On every single line of every new document. It is like the lovechild of the Microsoft paperclip (remember him!) and the Terminator.
At least on Excel there is a button on the task bar and confirmation that it cannot work unless I turn autosave on!
It has now appeared on Powerpoint. It is a Pandemic!
The software must have been written by the same people who stuck the MCAS software on the Boeing 737 Max without telling the pilots about it and burying the off switch deep down in layers of the controls. (After all when the plane forces you into an uncontrollable nose dive; your first instinct is to get the software manual out and search for something that you did not know was there).
Thank you! that worked!
This worked!
I am running Microsoft Word for Mac, version 16.93 (25011212), Microsoft 365 license. I have a 2019 MacBook Pro 16 inch running macOS 15.1.1 (24B91). There is no Copilot entry on my Word Preferences panel.