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How do I turn off Copilot in Word documents?
To update... I did the subscription downgrade but still had the distracting prompt on every Word document.
My subscription is annual so it will not downgrade for about a year.
I uninstalled and reinstalled MS 365 but still had the prompt.
I used the Office Deployment Tool to install an older version of MS 365. I used version 18025.20096 which is a September build I think. There might be a newer version you could use.
The Copilot prompt is no longer there in my Word documents. Success!
Quite a bit of messing around for something so intrusive that was added without my consent, especially when it came with a $40/year fee I didn't agree to or get informed about either, with a clearly deliberately deceptive process for reverting to the plan I did consent to.
I think hitting us with the copilot prompt is probably legitimate if we can opt out.
But the undisclosed (or sneakily disclosed, maybe) $40 additional subscription fee that requires you to click on "cancel subscription" just to (a) discover your annual cost has been increased and (b) discover that you can revert to the one you wanted is an outright deceptive business practice by Microsoft that I would think is unlawful in at least some jurisdictions (including where I live).
I just cancelled my subscription (paid for until 11 Feb 2025), but there is no option for subscribing to a version without CoPilot. Or price in Australian $ went from $109 to $159. So unless there is a fix to this idiocy before expiry the choice before me is to resume billing with its $50 increase just before expiry, or abandon MS 365 for personal use; the company can then provide a subscription for work use while I adopt another word processor for my normal writing.
Yes, that’s the same retrograde rollback build I chose too.
