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
    2025-01-22T13:05:08+00:00

    To all of us complaining...

    Absurd and foolish endeavor. An entirely wasted effort to continue complaining about this.

    It will be fixed when they deign us poor buyers of the product with an update. Microsoft, as many arrogant software providers, make bulk fixes when they have scheduled updates...

    Until then, perhaps we all stop whining and ignore the absurd, pesky "helper." And keep writing our own stuff.

    This from a guy who was already in the AI world as a kid in the '80s. I think of Copilot as a good Google-filter.

    Wonderful that you are a such an AI expert. But I am not interested in some software gimmick reading my document without my permission. And that's what it is doing: reading my document, disabled or enabled, it does not matter. Keep writing your own stuff and let anonymous snoops read along, you do that. I do not appreciate it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-22T13:02:19+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.

    The horror of it. There is no way to delete this stupid feature that was installed without my permission. It's a tool for information theft, nothing else. There is no way to remove it from your macbook, you can at best disable it, but the icon is still showing up in your Word document. Who says it is no longer reading your document???? And that's its purpose: to read your document and relay this information to the snoops.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-21T15:46:37+00:00

    To all of us complaining...

    Absurd and foolish endeavor. An entirely wasted effort to continue complaining about this.

    It will be fixed when they deign us poor buyers of the product with an update. Microsoft, as many arrogant software providers, make bulk fixes when they have scheduled updates...

    Until then, perhaps we all stop whining and ignore the absurd, pesky "helper." And keep writing our own stuff.

    This from a guy who was already in the AI world as a kid in the '80s. I think of Copilot as a good Google-filter.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-21T05:25:05+00:00

    The ONLY thing that works is reverting to the old version. Holy ****. I've been using Word for decades, I'm up against a deadline, and this absolute BS is what's FINALLY going to get me to use something else.

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  5. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-01-21T03:17:55+00:00

    Nope. It does not.

    Version information?

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