I want to disable Copilot in Word on MacBook Air

I've found the transition to Pages smooth and seamless. Seems like Apple has done some good work on it and menus and commands are easy to find.

~ Jack

I suspect that, if enough people register their complaints through the "Feedback" option (Help/Feedback), this issue will be addressed in another update cycle or two. Until then, we soldier on.

Hey everyone!

Anyone discovered how to solve this without reverting to a previous version Office?

Ivy x

Thank you, Ivy. I found that feature box was already unclicked but I'll try it anyway.

Stay tuned!

~Jack

Whew, thanks.👍

This worked for me, yay! I turned off the connected experiences, restarted, and was finally able to see copilot in Preferences. Disabled that sucker so fast! Thank you.

Well then, we are back to Barney-15E's suggestion. Contact Microsoft. Somehow I now only see the Co-Pilot icon at the top right of any Word document I'm working on. It's no longer popping up on its own. Maybe if you disregard it enough times, it goes away?

Carol B. wrote:

Well then, we are back to Barney-15E's suggestion. Contact Microsoft. Somehow I now only see the Co-Pilot icon at the top right of any Word document I'm working on. It's no longer popping up on its own. Maybe if you disregard it enough times, it goes away?

I'll have to check on that. I'm usually using Word with a work account that doesn't have Copilot, though.

Disabling the CoPilot functionality (if you can) in Microsoft 365 will not change Microsoft's decision to increase the subscription prices for personal and family. Single-purchase Office 2021/2024 for Mac suites have no access to CoPilot and their pricing remains the same.

Did you delete the latest version of Word (move it to the bin)? If not, it will not install the older version. And turn off AutoUpdate? If not, it will automatically update to latest version. Not sure if it works for everyone, but at least for some of us.

Perfect - thank you. Disabling Connected Experiences and restarting resulted in the 'Enable Copilot' checkbox to appear and be switched off. The checkbox remains even after re-enabling Connected Experiences.

In Privacy, under Connected Experiences, choose Manage Connected Experiences, then uncheck all the Connected Experiences boxes. Going through these layers of nested menus that are not intuitive to do something simple that should be one click is very Microsoft-ish!

this works, but is a bit overkill because it disables other functions too, like the stock-image feature (that I never use, so no problem).

after disabling via Privacy MS still pushes copilot through different interfaces, very annoying

Have you tried contacting them? There is no way!

That compounds my fury. I've been a professional magazine editor and writer for decades. The last thing I want is some techbro sewage in my face trying to tell me how to do my craft.