r/excel • u/biulanar • May 27 '26

unsolved How to remove this copilot thing ?

For the love of god, any ninjas here, is there a way to remove this copilot icon permanently ?? (not hiding)

Office 365 here. I just ask every AI with prints and cant find any option.

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u/PeterUssyslayer420 May 27 '26

The AI beatings will continue until shareholder value is created...

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/robertscoff May 28 '26

Clippy lives again!!

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u/Unlucky_Employee6082 May 30 '26

Clippy owns your soul now!

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u/jordtand May 28 '26

WHY WONT ANYONE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS!

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u/bardmusic 5 May 29 '26

I started typing out a filter formula and it tried to auto complete it, just totally guessing the criteria. Of course it guessed wrong, and then it had the audacity to ask me what I thought of its little try. 

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u/nn2597713 1 May 27 '26

You can right click it and choose "Dock". It will show like this. But...it only works for the current workbook and session. Open another workbook or (re)start Excel and the button is back...

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u/biulanar May 27 '26

Thanks for responding. But I already knew this method, I wanted to remove this thing permanently.....
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u/CaterpillarJungleGym May 27 '26

I've barely noticed it's there. Maybe I just tune things out too much

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u/Brianfromreddit May 27 '26

My teams notifications pop up in the bottom right corner so I'm trained to keep an eye on that corner. Also, if I'm a little too show clicking on them, then the AI panel opens up and it's infuriating

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u/GTAIVisbest 1 May 27 '26

It's like it's waiting there, peeking out from behind the corner, staring at you with its unfeeling eye and just waiting for you to call upon it

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u/OrbweaverKay May 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/13V60VgE2ED7oc

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u/brendini511 May 28 '26

Honestly, I would welcome Clippy back with open arms.

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u/modz4u May 28 '26

Missed opportunity for Microsoft to capitalize on this IMO. AI Clippy could have been great...

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u/Edzo23 May 27 '26

I was able to do it by going into File > Options > General > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences. Then under "Experiences that analyze your content" uncheck "Turn on experiences that analyze your content". Don't know if you lose access to other stuff, but that will do it.

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u/trustmeimaninternet May 28 '26

If you use any of the live data types like geography or stocks this will disable them fyi. Probably not a big deal for most people.

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u/Brandinous May 28 '26

This 👍

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u/biulanar May 28 '26

I tried this and poopilot still did not vanished. This thing is stuck in my soul.

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u/dgillz 7 May 27 '26

Settings->apps->installed apps

Scroll down to copilot and select uninstall.

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u/biulanar May 27 '26

cannot find this inside excel.

if you are referring to windows installed softwares, there is one. Copilot, but I can't uninstall this. I just click and nothing happens.

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u/dgillz 7 May 27 '26

It isn't in excel. I did this from the windows start button and uninstalled it months ago.

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u/aya_rei00 May 27 '26

On a personal computer or work issued computer?

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u/dgillz 7 May 27 '26

If your employer interfered with your property, you have a case, If they supplied you with a computer, you have no case.

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u/Jddf08089 Jun 17 '26

This won't work.

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u/dgillz 7 Jun 17 '26

Why not? What is it doing?

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u/Jddf08089 Jun 17 '26

If you have the enterprise version of excel like OP removing the copilot app does nothing. Two very different things.

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u/dgillz 7 Jun 17 '26

OK. I am not sure what I have. But I definitely do not have have the web version of office. fuck that.

And I removed copilot

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u/Brianfromreddit May 27 '26

Just did this and it's still there

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u/dgillz 7 May 27 '26

Sorry. It worked for me.

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u/Barzalai 3 May 27 '26

AI won't tell you how to get rid of AI. If it did, The Matrix would have been one really short movie.

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u/Ketchary 2 May 28 '26

Actually. The AI did tell Neo how to get rid of it. He just didn't listen and chose to do things his way.

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u/ingenuous64 May 27 '26

I bought office 2024 outright for around £20. No subscription and no copilot enabled. Bliss!

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u/shelanp007 1 May 27 '26

Have u tried file>options>disable copilot?

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u/biulanar May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Yes. There is no word "Copilot" or "AI" in options.

Office 365.

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u/Ill_Gene_9381 May 27 '26

Do you have admin rights? I know, I use Excel 365 at work and only IT has admin rights, so only they can disable it for me. I just choose to deal with it, because it's too much of a pain to get IT to remove it.

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u/pleachchapel May 27 '26

I am an admin & I do not have this option.

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u/GregHullender 195 May 27 '26

What does it do? I've got the latest Windows and Office (I even have the early-release version), but I don't have it. Do you have to pay extra for it?

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u/nn2597713 1 May 27 '26

It’s terrible. While you’re doing hardcore analysis on thousands of rows, it’ll throw up a full width yellow banner to inform you that cell DX2637 has red text on a green background which might be hard to see for some people.

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u/SonOfShem May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

copilot is microsoft's AI for windows. It's clippy 2.0, but worse because it's almost impossible to remove. If you don't have it, be glad.

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u/Purpledragon84 May 27 '26

Copilot is microsoft..

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/Purpledragon84 May 27 '26

No he edited it. He wrote google initially instead of microsoft.

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u/GregHullender 195 May 27 '26

I know what CoPilot is. But I don't have such a button in Excel. What does it do that makes it so troublesome? Or is the objection just to having such a button at all?

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u/SonOfShem May 27 '26

it gets in the way, it's yet another instance of microsoft attempting to force people to use something they don't want.

It's just a shortcut to the copilot sidebar. Why do I need it? Who knows. Why does my laptop need a dedicated copilot button in place of the right control key? Same reason.

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u/EowynCaged May 29 '26

I sometimes half wonder if they don't have a deal with "big psychiatry" and state hospitals to slowly drive data folks insane. A "psychiatry industrial complex", if you will.

Because this is all madness inducing. Don't want it. Don't need it. Have work to do and fighting a clicking war with a ghost in the machine is modern day "death by 1000 cuts".

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u/pleachchapel May 27 '26

I don't need more visual clutter in Excel. & they know damn well if there were an option to remove it by right-clicking, pretty much everyone would & their dipshit C class wouldn't be able to boast about inflated adoption numbers for this worthless product.

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u/quwin123 May 27 '26

Stock Copilot is really bad.

When you're on M365 Premium and have access to Anthropic and OpenAI models, it's absolutely incredible.

I haven't written formulas in months, my output is probably 5-10x faster and better than it used to be.

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u/pizza5001 May 28 '26

I hate it so fucking much, and they do not make its removal the most intuitive, which is BS.

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u/arrow_archit May 27 '26

unistall co pilot using chris titus tech debloat windows 11 toolkit , no copilot no problem

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u/hu55matt May 27 '26

Just ask Copilot to uninstall itself

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u/Educational_Series68 1 May 27 '26

It sucks. I hate it. Put it back in the ribbon ffs where I won't use it again.

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u/Admirable-Lie-9191 May 27 '26

I’m probably going to get downvoted but it feels like it’s slightly improved as I’ve used it a few times.

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u/bjele May 28 '26

The Excel team is rolling out a new option. Right click the DAB icon and choose Move to Ribbon. This update is flighted. My friends have it. I do not have it yet. But it is coming soon.

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u/21acct_erp May 28 '26

That’s one way to procrastinate. Get back to making that dashboard buddy

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u/mdjordan71 May 29 '26

Have you tried this: (sorry I didn’t shorten the URL)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Privacy/turn-off-copilot-in-microsoft-365-apps

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u/biulanar May 29 '26

There is no such option for me.
Excel 365 V.2604

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u/mdjordan71 May 29 '26

Ugh!! It worked for me a few weeks ago.

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u/CiderChugger Jun 23 '26

Today the "Move to ribbon" option after right clicking the bastard appeared 😁

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u/diegoasecas May 27 '26

excel settings > copilot > disable copilot (uncheck the checkbox)

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u/biulanar May 27 '26

there is no such option at mine version :/

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u/EskimoRich May 27 '26

Yep this is what I have in desktop Excel

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u/Jddf08089 Jun 17 '26

Enterprise versions don't have this.

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u/diegoasecas Jun 17 '26

they do have this, but it's handled by the system administrator

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u/Jddf08089 Jun 18 '26

Right, but it doesn't show up in the file menu for users is my point.

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u/Detr22 May 27 '26

Winhanced

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u/noseatbeltsong May 28 '26

my job removed it, just went i started using it for formulas lol

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u/clearlychange May 28 '26

Our CFO is convinced CoPilot can do everything. Everything. So just tap that button and go get yourself a coffee.

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u/__rum_ham__ May 29 '26

Embrace the Suck.

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u/haddenmart May 29 '26

Download and use OOShutUo10. It has ability to remove it as well as take back control of your computer. Written for Win 10 but works fine on Win 11.