Remove copilot icon that appears when I click in Onenote

Anonymous
2025-01-17T01:40:15+00:00

Today, I turned on Onenote, and it notified me that it had Copilot update.

Now, every time I click in Onenote, it shows this annoying Copilot icon next to cursor:

How do I remove it?

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-02T15:03:03+00:00

    This is completely unacceptable. Nobody asked for this. "Copilot" is worse that Clippy!

    Microsoft is trying to force it down our throats just to get more private data and increase their stock price. There haven't been any truly useful improvements to Office in years, just messing up the interface and down this. Please get back to building products people want.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-04T17:44:00+00:00

    This is remarkably poor software design and its exhausting to see all the apologies from MS and then nothing really changes. You have imposed this AI function on users before it really works well. Like all things Microsoft, there is chaos across products and no simple way to accomplish a universal option of turning it off. If I did not have to use this environment at the request of my client, I would have abandoned you all long ago.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-09T12:05:04+00:00

    Absolutely.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-10T19:35:07+00:00

    Awful "feature." Get this garbage out of my app.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-10T20:51:44+00:00

    With version 2502 ( Current Channel build 16.0.18526.20144), the local OneNote application now also has a switch within "Options" to disable Copilot. The annoying Copilot icon is gone for me.

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