Microsoft Is Letting Office Users Remove An Annoying Copilot Button

Microsoft is rolling retired Office app updates adjacent week that let users to disable a floating Copilot button. The fastener appeared successful Word, Excel, and PowerPoint successful caller weeks, and floats supra nan bottommost right-hand conception of spreadsheets aliases documents. It has angered galore Excel users successful particular, because it obstructs cells and you can’t afloat disable it.

“While we are seeing accrued engagement pinch Copilot successful Office apps pinch this update, we are besides proceeding nan request for much power complete really Copilot appears,” admits Katie Kivett, partner group merchandise head astatine Microsoft. “While 1 of our goals is to germinate Copilot to beryllium much adaptive and elastic complete time, we are making immoderate adjustments successful nan short term.”

While Microsoft already has a dock action for nan floating Copilot fastener to make it somewhat smaller and little annoying, it’s now adding an action to move nan fastener to nan ribbon truthful it will nary longer float connected apical of documents. This caller action will look adjacent week erstwhile users right-click nan “Dynamic Action Button.”

This alteration to Office apps comes conscionable a period aft Microsoft besides started removing “unnecessary” Copilot buttons from various Windows 11 apps. After years of shoving Copilot buttons everywhere, it seems for illustration Microsoft is yet waking up to nan truth that these additions tin beryllium much annoying than useful.