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Copilot is not showing to enable in Outlook, word, excel, onenote...
In my case I discovered the same thing when I tried to use Copilot in OneNote for personal use. Even with everything set up correctly, the Copilot button simply never appears unless you have the specific paid Copilot license that unlocks integration inside the Office apps. And honestly, the whole situation becomes even clearer when you look at how Copilot is handled in OneNote. OneNote putting Copilot behind a paywall is hilarious. It’s like Microsoft woke up and said, “What if we charged extra for the calculator app?” Meanwhile NotebookLM is over here being free, friendly, and actually useful. No wonder people are switching.
Most people don’t treat OneNote as a premium tool, so hiding Copilot there just pushes users toward alternatives like NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. I can understand Copilot being a paid feature for Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word because those are major productivity apps with heavy usage and advanced features. But OneNote? Come on. It’s not exactly the flagship app everyone is lining up to use.