Microsoft is allowing Office users to remove the annoying Copilot button

Microsoft is rolling out an update to Office next week that will allow users to disable the Copilot floating button. The button has appeared in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in recent weeks, and it floats at the top right of spreadsheets or documents. They he is angry Many users of Excel especially, because it disables cells and you can’t disable it completely.

“While we’re seeing more and more Copilot in Office apps with these updates, we also feel the need to improve the way Copilot looks,” agrees Katie Kivettsales manager for the Partner group at Microsoft. “While one of our goals is to make Copilot more flexible and flexible over time, we’re changing in the short term.”

While Microsoft already has a port to make Copilot’s floating button look smaller and less annoying, it is now adding a way to move the button to the ribbon so that it no longer floats on top of documents. The new feature will appear next week when users click the “Powerful Action Button”.

The update to the Office suite comes just over a month after Microsoft launched a new update removing “unnecessary” Copilot buttons from various Windows 11 apps. After years of pushing Copilot buttons everywhere, it seems like Microsoft is waking up to the fact that these additions can be more annoying than useful.