Please, look at my son
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CoPilot in MS Word
I opened Word yesterday to discover that it now contains CoPilot. It follows you as you type and if you have a personal Microsoft 365 account, you can't turn it off. You will be given 60 AI credits per month and you can't opt out of it.
The only way to banish it is to revert to an earlier version of Office. There is lot of conflicting information and overly complex guides out there, so I thought I'd share the simplest way I found.
How to revert back to an old version of Office that does not have CoPilot
This is fairly simple, thankfully, presuming everything is in the default locations. If not you'll need to adjust the below for where you have things saved.
- Click the Windows Button and S to bring up the search box, then type cmd. It will bring up the command prompt as an option. Run it as an administrator.
- Paste this into the box at the cursor: cd "\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun"
- Hit Enter
- Then paste this into the box at the cursor: officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.17726.20160
- Hit enter and wait while it downloads and installs.
- VERY IMPORTANT. Once it's done, open Word, go to File, Account (bottom left), and you'll see a box on the right that says Microsoft 365 updates. Click the box and change the drop down to Disable Updates.
This will roll you back to build 17726.20160, from July 2024, which does not have CoPilot, and prevent it from being installed.
If you want a different build, you can see them all listed here. You will need to change the 17726.20160 at step 4 to whatever build number you want.
This is not a perfect fix, because while it removes CoPilot, it also stops you receiving security updates and bug fixes.
Switching from Office to LibreOffice
At this point, I'm giving up on Microsoft Office/Word. After trying a few different options, I've switched to LibreOffice.
You can download it here for free: https://www.libreoffice.org/
If you like the look of Word, these tutorials show you how to get that look:
- www.howtogeek.com/788591/how-to-make-libreoffice-look-like-microsoft-office/
- www.debugpoint.com/libreoffice-like-microsoft-office/
If you've been using Word for awhile, chances are you have a significant custom dictionary. You can add it to LibreOffice following these steps.
First, get your dictionary from Microsoft
- Go to Manage your Microsoft 365 account: account.microsoft.com.
- One you're logged in, scroll down to Privacy, click it and go to the Privacy dashboard.
- Scroll down to Spelling and Text. Click into it and scroll past all the words to download your custom dictionary. It will save it as a CSV file.
- Open the file you just downloaded and copy the words.
- Open Notepad and paste in the words. Save it as a text file and give it a meaningful name (I went with FromWord).
Next, add it to LibreOffice
- Open LibreOffice.
- Go to Tools in the menu bar, then Options. It will open a new window.
- Find Languages and Locales in the left menu, click it, then click on Writing aids.
- You'll see User-defined dictionaries. Click New to the right of the box and give it a meaningful name (mine is FromWord).
- Hit Apply, then Okay, then exit LibreOffice.
- Open Windows Explorer and go to C:\Users[YourUserName]\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\wordbook and you will see the new dictionary you created. (If you can't see the AppData folder, you will need to show hidden files by ticking the box in the View menu.)
- Open it in Notepad by right clicking and choosing 'open with', then pick Notepad from the options.
- Open the text file you created at step 5 in 'get your dictionary from Microsoft', copy the words and paste them into your new custom dictionary UNDER the dotted line.
- Save and close.
- Reopen LibreOffice. Go to Tools, Options, Languages and Locales, Writing aids and make sure the box next to the new dictionary is ticked.
If you use LIbreOffice on multiple machines, you'll need to do this for each machine.
Please note: this worked for me. If it doesn't work for you, check you've followed each step correctly, and try restarting your computer. If it still doesn't work, I can't provide tech support (sorry).
This! Yes, go to FOSS!! Learn how to use FOSS, learn how to make FOSS better.
LibreOffice is HUGE and it's GREAT and you don't ever have to touch MS again if you know how to take care of your stuff. STOP DEPENDING ON BIG TECHS!
Also, if you really really need it to be MS Office, just pirate it. Get the 2013 version or something. Go to the internet, learn how to pirate safely. Learn about trustworthy sites, about VPN and the Scene. Learn how to get cracked software. It's not some deepweb, just like put an r/ in front of the 🏴☠️ word or something, maybe you'll find something interesting, I don't know. It's a fucking big tech, don't get sad about license stuff or anything. They don't deserve your money, they don't give you an option to opt out, so you do it yourself.
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Made a mouthwashing animation yayyy
Holy crap this is so well made check it out guys
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love House MD because House is the MAIN CHARACTER at that hospital and there's no attempt to hide this. as the viewer you are fully aware that those nurses in the elevator are just extras. the boss's entire schedule consists of yelling at him. the head of oncology would rather prescribe him controlled meds and flirt than practice oncology. his team's only desires are to fuck him and strangle him, often at the same time. every other doctor at the hospital might as well be a cardboard cutout.
the walls are glass, the better to see him through. he limps around, commits malpractice, and serves cunt.
long live mid-2000s TV.
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this is so funny. ducklings from wish.
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Film reviewers HATE their canonically married swag
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never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It
signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy
americans are making this post about their shit education system and the literacy crisis whatever that is and i say this with love in my heart: it really is not that deep. pathology this pathologizing that. how about the universal human inclination to take da Path of least resistance
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tumblrinas need to see this
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Submitted for classification by @leodoriya
"this is my buddy. his name is jinx. he’s 21 years old and we have to put him down tomorrow. i would like to submit him for classification so that everyone can know my boy"
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First base is beating the shit out of each other second base is having a civil conversation
Third base is dying for each other fourth base is marriage
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dash is dead im teleporting to the past
BEFORE YOU CLICK A LINK!
Reblog this post :) Especially if you’re on mobile, you’ll lose the post if you click the link without thinking. Take a note from your elders before you
Interesting note: It definitely uses whoever you're following now, not at that date. Even the 2020 one includes a lot of people I was absolutely not following yet in Feb 2020, which is actually kind of cool, I can see what they were reblogging from this fandom before I got into it.
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Reblog this post to ask mutuals to tell you their weirdest theory about u
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cuz i love them
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obsessed with this sweet commission I wrapped up this week... look closely lol
obsessed with this sweet
commission I wrapped up this
week… look closely lol
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
ID: a softly-lit painting in yellow tones of a glass tea post full of sun tea. The sun is falling across the tableau, and a glass mug full of the tea sits to the right of the pot. A spoon rests to the left of the pot, and the reflection of a dog's face is showing in the spoon's bowl. end ID.