Remove copilot icon that appears when I click in Onenote

I have moved to LTSC 2021 on my second computer so I can keep Publisher. MS Design or whatever is trashy bubblegum so I'm thinking of using LTSC on my main one as well.

It doesn't have all the Copilot stuff and let's face it, how out of date can Word and Outlook be. they just do the same old stuff year after year.

I'd feel differently if MS had made it possible to change the Categories colours in Outlook but they haven't. Green, orange, red, red, yellow, blue. Year after year.

And they think I want Copilot. Why would I.

OneDrive is the spawn of Satan. I sat and watched it suck all my documents from My Documents folder and put them all over the place.

And it changes the default save locations of many programs.

Aside from the time spent simply finding my files, it completely destroyed my backup scheme.

and the damn thing tries to reinstall itself with every update. It is pure evil.

Now, back to our regularly scheduling program of CoPilot nausea.

I wanted to be able to use the collapse feature that happens when "Meeting Details" are pasted into OneNote where there is a carrot > that you click on to callops and expand like you would with the "gripper icon" that the Copilot Icon has hijacked this week. I have been copying and pasting that outlook carrot > (have to copy the whole line and part of next for it to work) on all my pages for at least my highest level as its cleaner than using the gripper icon. I am not happy to have to now expand this "trick" to all levels of my outlines as I callops so much content on a daily basis being a project manager in meetings as I only want attendees to see the higher levels. This is VERY problematic for me!

Wanted to share this workaround for those who need to have something at least while figuring out what to do. I have also seen a keyboard shortcut to callops yet I couldn't get it to work (alt +/-) or something like that.

Screenshots for reference

Template I created for easy cut n paste ...

Hope this provides a small amount of... well something that is slightly helpful against what's happening. Cheers!

I hate to break it to you…. Open a new document in Word or Powerpoint. Copilot icon appears in all of them now.