How to disable Copilot for all applications - Mac

Hi,

"I don't want AI, ever, in any way shape or form in my Word. Not that hard to understand."

I totally agree with you. And I also dont need berating moderators to refer me to developers etc. It's important that also the community understands that there is dissatisfaction with the product. We're all users, after all, not single individuals who are expected to wage a battle with anonymous developers. What purpose does it have to piss off users with a derogatory way of treating their dismay, whether they are "venting" or not. Stop being childish, moderators, and be instead the driving force to cause MS to do the right thing instead of bashing the frustrated users who pay for this ****.

In any case, moving forward, there is a way to get rid of the problem. It's in the prefab responses by MS: you need to first cancel your subscription to MS Office. Then you need to subscribe again to the MS 360 Classic. In other words, you completely uninstall your current MS Office toolkit, and you install it with Classic when you subscribe again.

That said, I have not tried it, due to too many uncertainties, aside from it being a major operation. Such as, is it guaranteed i can fetch the Classic option? And is it true that my copilot-impacted documents will properly open with the subscription to the Classic option? (Doing a backup first goes without saying.) And, how can I prevent an other unwanted "update" on my Classic 360?

I've used Pages, which is a very good tool, and it converts into a Word document. But it is not one-on-one compatible with Word. It does not open in Word. Word opens in Pages.

The whole thing is mind boggling, and quite disconcerting to know that your computer can be modified without you knowing it, or being able to control it. I have not been able to locate the files for this copilot anywhere on my Mac's hard drive, spending hours on inspecting files and hidden files. This means that when connected to the internet my computer is accessible to anonymous entities without my permission, and the modifications are beyond my control somewhere 'out there' in the cloud or so. What's the business model here?

Cheers.

Thank you, @Charles Kenyon.

When I click on the Copilot icon in my toolbar, it brings up a window that says:

Microsoft Word for Mac

Version 16.93 (25011212)

License: Microsoft 365 Subscription

In the second video, you show the icon in the preferences, you show how you disable that icon, and lastly you show that the icon is now gone from the Word document itself. It works.

However, I dont see this icon in my preferences anywhere. And despite turning off the stuff as in the first video, the icon still sits in my Word documents.

The only thing I can do, apparently, is what I wrote in a response: delete the MS Office toolkit and cancel the subscription. And buy a new subscription for the Classic 360 option.

It sucks.

Or just ignore it.

Perhaps all the angry keyboard-pounding can be re-purposed to seeking thought independent of Copilot.

Microsoft, as most software developers, compiles "non-emergency" fixes (improvements?) in update bundles for their next update cycle. Not your expressed wishes.

Trust they will address this, if they perceive it as deleterious to subscription revenue.

As I wrote previously...

Or just ignore it.

We can all devote the copious angry keyboard-pounding to writing relevant and unique thoughts independent of Copilot.

MS, as all other major software developers, compile fixes (the non-emergency ones) and improvements bundled for their next [convenient] update. Trust they will fix this if it is not deleterious to subscription revenue.