I want to disable Copilot in Word on MacBook Air

We can disable it, they just seem to be doing what they can to prevent us from disabling it (what a surprise). As per wfd11777, you need to go into Word and select Preferences > Privacy. Then go into Manage Connected Experiences and uncheck Turn On All Connected Experiences. Once you've done this, you'll be asked to restart Word. Restart Word and the Co-Pilot will reappear in the new blank document (urgh). Select Preferences AGAIN and you should now see the Co-Pilot icon displayed. Click on Co-Pilot and uncheck Enable. Fingers crossed.

This copilot intrusion happened to me today and before I understood what was happening I saved the document I was editing to OneDrive which I don't normally use. When I eventually found where it was filed, the document was blank! Three hours spent trying to retrieve it with no success. Eventually I worked out how to disable copilot but now face a couple of hours rewriting an article. Does anyone have any ideas if it might be retrievable? I'm being told that I can open an earlier saved version as I don't have enough privileges.

I found something that worked for me just now. First, I updated word for Mac and the other MS apps. Then I opened the Word file with the annoying Copilot BS on. Then I went File>Preferences, where I saw the Copilot symbol listed under Authoring Tools (it's very visible). Click on the Copilot logo and - finally! - you see the magic checkbox for Copilot, which is checked on by default. Uncheck that box. Copilot will be greyed out on the ribbon bar.

I suspect this might be a process that will have to be followed for every single Word doc I open. That sucks, but's better than the alternative.

For whatever it's worth:

Microsoft – Copilot – How to turn off Copilot in Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions

There's a note at the top saying "he info in this article applies only to when you're signed in to your Microsoft 365 apps with a Microsoft account. For example, a personal outlook.com email address."

Have you contacted Microsoft? They make both products.

I did get offered a thirty dollars off if I changed to a one year subscription (I was paying monthly) but only for one year.

How do you get rid of copilot? The "solution" above does not work.

Usonian2 wrote:

No—it doesn't just go away when you start to type. It reappears every time you hit "return."

Take it up with Microsoft.

I followed the steps above. MS loaded the latest version of MS Word anyway.

I do not see Options under File, much less File > Options > Copilot, maybe because it isn't there?

I still have Office 365 for another couple of weeks. But we're not renewing.

When were you able to get to their tech support? I tried recently and gave up.

In Word PREFERENCES there is an icon for Copilot. Click it — Disable Copilot.

All my connected experiences are unchecked. This is so frustrating

I don't have this