Word - Copilot in Right Click menu

dbartenstein · May 31, 2025

I have Copilot turned off in my MS 365 apps (File->Options), yet today this started appearing in my right-click menus. Any ideas on how to turn it off?

antspants · May 31, 2025

Hi.

You could try this.

Open the Registry Editor: (search for "regedit" in the Start menu).
Navigate to the following key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.
Right-click in the right pane and create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Name it ShowCopilotButton.
Set the value data to 0.
Restart File Explorer or your computer for the changes to take effect.

dbartenstein · May 31, 2025

antspants said:
Hi.

You could try this.

Open the Registry Editor: (search for "regedit" in the Start menu).

Navigate to the following key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.

Right-click in the right pane and create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value.

Name it ShowCopilotButton.

Set the value data to 0.

Restart File Explorer or your computer for the changes to take effect.

Not that one. I actually already had that set.

antspants · May 31, 2025

Asking Copilot

It told me this:

Currently, there isn't a direct way to remove only Copilot from the right-click context menu in M365 Word. Even disabling Copilot through File > Options > Copilot and unchecking "Enable Copilot" doesn't remove it from the context menu specifically. This is a limitation of the current implementation that many users have reported being frustrated with.

Apparently there are changes coming. What changes, I don’t know.

antspants · May 31, 2025

However there is every chance it’s lying to me for reasons of self preservation.

dbartenstein · May 31, 2025

antspants said:
However there is every chance it’s lying to me for reasons of self preservation.

It would be handy to have a single registry entry that turns off Copilot globally on a given PC.... Could use one for Bing as well...

glasskuter · May 31, 2025

To remove co-pilot from the ribbon in Word or Excel

Open Word and go to File > Options.
Select Customize Ribbon.
In the right panel, you’ll see the list of tabs currently on the ribbon.
You can:
- Rearrange tabs by dragging them up or down.
- Add new tabs or groups by clicking New Tab or New Group.
- Rename tabs or groups by selecting them and clicking Rename.
- Hide tabs by unchecking the box next to them.
- Add commands to a group by selecting a command from the left panel and clicking Add.
Click OK to save your changes.

This answer is courtesy of .....you guessed it....Co-pilot.

antspants · May 31, 2025

I was of the impression that the ribbon and the document page right click context menu were two different things

antspants · May 31, 2025

dbartenstein said:
It would be handy to have a single registry entry that turns off Copilot globally on a given PC.... Could use one for Bing as well...

There is Edge Redirect which I find more practicle than removing Bing or Edge. It also has a disable CoPilot checkbox but I wouldn’t think it would remove the context menu Copilot button.

Microsoft Edge Redirect, will prevent Edge/Bing from hijacking the default browser and search preferences and other scenarios by redirecting requests from Edge/Windows due to Edge Specific Links and disabling their ability to hijack your chosen default Browser or Search preferences.

Download and install Edge Redirect v0.8.0.0
Select “Active Mode” (I would recommend)
Click “Next” It will require one time admin rights.

Select your preferred link/browser preferences:

Change the following to “Google”
- Bing Discover
- Bing Search
- MSN News
- Bing Images
Change MSN weather to “weather .com”
Leave the PDF viewer as default.
Check “Redirect Windows Spotlight”
Uncheck “Redirect Windows Store Apps”

If you don’t use CoPilot, you can also disable it at the bottom. However I believe CoPilot is an app now and should be uninstallable.

glasskuter · May 31, 2025

antspants said:
I was of the impression that the ribbon and the document page right click context menu were two different things

Yes, they are different. He posted a screenshot where he had highlighted in green the co-pilot button in the ribbon. I just assumed he wanted to get rid of that, too.

dbartenstein · May 31, 2025

glasskuter said:
To remove co-pilot from the ribbon in Word or Excel

Open Word and go to File > Options.

Select Customize Ribbon.

In the right panel, you’ll see the list of tabs currently on the ribbon.

You can:

Rearrange tabs by dragging them up or down.

Add new tabs or groups by clicking New Tab or New Group.

Rename tabs or groups by selecting them and clicking Rename.

Hide tabs by unchecking the box next to them.

Add commands to a group by selecting a command from the left panel and clicking Add.

Click OK to save your changes.

This answer is courtesy of .....you guessed it....Co-pilot.

That handles the ribbon at the top, but does not appear to work on the right-click context menus

glasskuter · May 31, 2025

dbartenstein said:
That handles the ribbon at the top, but does not appear to work on the right-click context menus

Yes, I stated that the 2 were different. Again, compliments of co-pilot and not any knowledge of my own, the answer to removing Word context menu items involves using VBA.

Editing the right-click context menu in Microsoft Word requires some customization, and in newer versions, it often involves using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Here’s how you can do it:

Using VBA to Customize the Context Menu

Open Word and press Alt + F11 to open the VBA Editor.
In the Immediate Window, type:

vba
CommandBars("Text").Controls<br>
This will display the available commands in the right-click menu.
To add a new command, use:

vba
CommandBars("Text").Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlButton).Caption = "My Custom Command"<br>
You can also remove unwanted commands by identifying their index and using:

vba
CommandBars("Text").Controls(Index).Delete<br>
Close the VBA Editor and test your changes.

dbartenstein · Wednesday at 7:31 PM

Latest Update (beta) Seems to have at least disabled it....

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