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I want to turn off or hide the draft with copilot dingbat that follows my cursor around in MS Word.
Found it, and unchecking the box worked. From inside of Word, File-->Options-->Copilot.
Hi Shruti2929,
Do you have a screenshot of the copilot icon? I believe there was a fully shaded version and a flat shaded version, but I had hidden both of them on the ribbon and could not get them back.
From memory there didn't appear to be any drop-down menu, but I will confirm this.
I did manage to remove the dingbat via brute force, and modifying my copy of word.
The copilot dingbat icon is also present on the web version that I was testing with, so I suspect there should be a holistic approach to disabling the dingbat subscription wide...
I will reinstall a retail copy of Microsoft Word and give your instructions a test and report back.
It's kind of silly because even on the web version it takes up about 80% of the screen, why not just use copilot through Bing at that point? I don't understand how they managed to get this feature through quality assurance... 🤮
Hi Shruti2929,
Thank you for your response which unfortunately does not address my issue of being prompted to use Copilot to paste text.
Stepping through your post:
I am using Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO Version 2410 64-bit
The Co-pilot icon is not a small light bulb, it is a sort of double scroll
Clicking on it does not open a pane on the right-hand side, it opens a Draft with Copilot dialog, no option to "Show Copilot in document", so the remaining steps are moot
Going to File > Options > Proofing, there is no Autocorrect Settings under Autocorrect Options, only an AutoCorrect Options button. Clicking that opens a box called AutoCorrect with tabs to AutoCorrect, Math AutoCorrect, AutoFormat as You Type, AutoFormat and Actions. None of the tabs, especially AutoCorrect As You Type, have any reference to Copilot.
Proposing reverting to an earlier version of Word is not particularly helpful, but thank you for taking the time to try to help
I've got the same issue as sb_geo_advisory, and I need it to go AWAY while I write.
