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** Update **

Strange thing. My previous reply referred to my computer.

I’ve just checked my wife’s identical computer with the same version of Office 365, and it’s not showing the Copilot tab on the Options page. Hence, nowhere to disable Copilot on her computer.

Thank you, that’s great. Disabled it is!

Oilujarm wrote:

Of course, I am aware that I can disable Copilot in Excel,

How? I would love to know, because to my knowledge there’s no way (yet) to disable CoPilot in Excel.

In Word, yes.

Cybertooth wrote:

Wonder if this is a trial run, testing customer response in preparation for a broader rollout.

I’m sure it is; can’t imagine they would have some customers with it, and some without, in the long run.

Thanks for posting the pertinent details from the article, and the link to the non-paywalled version of it.

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Cybertooth

Thanks for your suggestion @Drcard:))

I think that’s a sort of workaround, not really a solution to the problem.

Reading through the several pages on the link that you provided, there are lots of reasons offered as to why it’s not a viable alternative for lots of people, including myself.

The sooner Microsoft wake up and offer a decent solution, the better it will be for both them and their users.  I can see many 365 users cancelling their subscriptions because of this farce.

I don’t see it on any of my machines.

Only a guess, but I suspect you’re not seeing it because you’re not in one of the countries where it’s already been rolled out.

As mentioned in my initial post, only a few countries – Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and a couple of others – have been lucky enough to get it.

But don’t worry, I’m sure your turn will come soon enough.

 

Apparently there’s no way to disable Copilot in Microsoft 365, according to “Why is Copilot appearing in Office / Microsoft 365?” where it states:

There’s no way to control or hide the Copilot elements.

That’s Microsoft for you!

Thanks; unfortunately it was deleted 3 months ago.

Thanks @Alex5723.

I realize that’s a possibility, but not really a solution to the problem in my opinion.

Ideally I would prefer to maintain my current Family subscription, and not have to un-subscribe and then subscribe to Classic, but we’ll see what eventuates in the next month or so.

Win 7 32-bit, successfully installed:

• KB5044011 (.Net)
• KB5044356

Thanks to @abbodi86 et al for your work on this.

 

Hi Imacri,

Thanks for your latest comments.

lmacri wrote:

Sorry, your comments in post # 2706204 led me to believe that you wanted to resume troubleshooting.

My apologies for that – quite unintentional.  It was only intended as an update for anyone who had been following the discussion, not a plea for further troubleshooting assistance.

lmacri wrote:

Go to Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update | Get the Latest Updates As Soon As They’re Available and make sure that setting is OFF.

That setting doesn’t even show on the “problem” machine, presumably due to the fact that Windows Updates are disabled on it.

 

Hi Imacri,

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions.

I appreciate the time and effort that you’ve put into it, but I really don’t have the time and/or inclination to continue troubleshooting.

As I remarked earlier, I only started the thread out of curiosity more than anything, because it’s – so far at least – an oddity, but not causing any obvious problems.

It’s a bit of a case of “if it ain’t (badly) broke, don’t fix it”, from my perspective.

Everything is working OK now, and I worry that if I do the online repair or change the M365 update channel manually, that I’ll “break” something and be worse off.

 

*** Update ***

Last Sunday (22 September) I decided to try updating Office again, with the following results:

“Problem” desktop computer – updated to Version 2409 (Build 18025.20090 Click-to-Run)

Second Desktop computer and Laptop – got the message that they’re already up to date; remained on Version 2408 (Build 17928.20156 Click-to-Run)

No idea why one of the desktops is receiving unwanted Insider Preview builds when all ‘tests’ (documented above) appear to show it – as well as the second desktop and laptop – is on the stable Current Channel release channel.

 

Hi Imacri,

Thank you for yet another update to this ongoing saga.

lmacri wrote:

I also can’t see any evidence that you’re enrolled in either the Microsoft 365 Insider program or Windows 10 Insider program,

Great, that’s what I wanted to hear.

lmacri wrote:

so I have no idea why the M365 Insider Preview update released 09-Sep-2024 (i..e. the Version 2409 / Build 18025.20030 listed ) was installed on one of your computers.

That makes two of us.

lmacri wrote:

See Jay Freedman’s post today in jayakay’s 14-Sep-2024 topic All of a sudden, Draft View doesn’t show Page Numbers in the MS Answers forum.

Sounds very similar to my situation.  Hopefully, as you say, it’s just a one-off glitch and won’t be a recurring “problem”.

Time to close this thread now, I think.  Maybe not exactly “solved”, but certainly well researched and discussed.

Again, thanks for all the time and effort that you’ve put into this discussion.

 

Hi Imacri,

Thank you, again.

It seems that, unlike me, you’re very patient and not easily put off. 🙂

I went to to Settings | Privacy | Diagnostics & Feedback | Diagnostic Data and temporarily selected Optional Diagnostic Data.  Then Settings | Update & Security | Windows Insider Program appeared as follows:

Which, from my understanding of the situation and what you’ve said, means that I’m not enrolled in the Windows Insider Program.

BTW, it says the following because I have TPM 2.0 disabled:

Your PC does not meet the minimum hardware requirements for
Windows 11. Your channel options will be limited.

lmacri wrote:

According to Prince R’s post you need to click on the Update Options button to see if “Office Insider” or “Microsoft 365 Insider” is listed there.

As can be seen below, no “Office Insider” or “Microsoft 365 Insider” listed when I click on the Update Options button.

Now, with a lot of luck, I hope this post will be submitted without any problems.