Policy

Enable Writing Assistant

This policy setting controls whether users can use the Writing Assistant feature. If you enable or don’t configure this policy setting, users will be allowed to use Writing Assistant and it will be enabled by default (unless the users disabled it). If you disable this policy setting, users won't see Writing Assistant by default. Note: This policy setting only applies to subscription versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Office 2016 / Miscellaneous
Policy ID 91d9ff8958e8
Internal name L_WritingAssistantAdminChoiceAdminChoice

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\general\writingassistantadminchoice (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\general\writingassistantadminchoice (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting controls whether users can use the Writing Assistant feature. If you enable or don’t configure this policy setting, users will be allowed to use Writing Assistant and it will be enabled by default (unless the users disabled it). If you disable this policy setting, users won't see Writing Assistant by default. Note: This policy setting only applies to subscription versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise.

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