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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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-24T19:32:25+00:00

    I agree the copilot live help is disturbing. Made it my lift mission to solve.

    The workaround right now is to use

    Alt + Shift + _ for collapse indent

    Alt + Shift + + for expand (the plus on calculator keys don't work but the one left to backspace)- Mouse click also expands.

    You're welcome.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-26T22:10:51+00:00

    Completely unacceptable. They are only doing it to force users to feed the AI. I am seriously considering unsubscribing from everything Microsoft. It is fine if they want to add it as a feature, but not being able to turn everything on or off in the settings except for the AI? Come on. This is too much of a push. It is the most detrimental part of the services Microsoft has ever provided.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-27T10:16:00+00:00

    I agree with everybody that this copilot icon in OneNote is really annoying. It pops up every time you begin writing a new line, even after uninstalling Copilot and turning off all the so-called "experiences" in Excel's privacy settings (the privacy settings are absent from OneNote's options).

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-27T14:42:09+00:00

    I've found success in removing the Copilot icons by reverting to an earlier version of OneNote, as outlined here:

    "After updating Office to 2501, there will be an option in Word file—options to choose whether to enable Copilot. However, this option is currently only available in Word, and other applications such as Excel need to wait for subsequent updates.

    If you really need to, we recommend that you restore your Microsoft 365 version to an earlier version, see the following:

    • Restore Office version
    1. Close all Office software, in the Start Menu, find "Command Prompt" (or "cmd"), right-click and select "Run as administrator"";
    2. In the command prompt, type the following command and press Enter: 
       cd %programfiles% \Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun
    3. Then type the following and press Enter 
       Officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.17531.20120

    This will restore Office to the stable version in February 2024."

    Full response: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/copilot-icon-in-onenote/4caa13d5-b559-446a-8267-94bfc5e2da43

    It's crazy that this is what's necessary to get around the obnoxiously invasive Copilot features, but it does work.

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