How do I stop Copilot interfering with my documents? I removed the app but it is still there like an embedded virus. Word for Windows.

This feature is currently unavailable for any application except Word, but the word is that the developers of the other applications are working on a fix.

Hi Thomas - please can you repeat this for all other Microsoft apps - I am writing emails in Outlook, Teams messages, Excel, etc and Copilot is so intrusive, it actually takes my typing away from that app I was using and starts typing into the Copilot app. I am trying to work here...

Thanks!

CM

Microsoft seems sometimes to be channeling Coca Cola, throwing out something like this to afflict everyone who uses Office and by the time they have sort of patched it up, I've already gotten a couple dozen or so notices of what you're supposed to do about it and why those suggestions often don't work, and on and on. I guess part of the answer is what Tversky & Kahnemann said about artifical intlligence which they did not study. "We're not interested in artificial intelligence. We are interested in natural stupidity."

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For Word for Mac, go to Word> Preferences. Then under Authoring and Proofing Tools there is a CoPilot icon. Clicking on it will generate a screen on which you can uncheck "Enable CoPilot"

The option is currently available only in Word, but work is being done to add it to the other Office apps.