Select the Options icon, and then select Options. You can set up an automatic reply to let everyone know that the account is going to be closed, and tell them where to send email to you in the future. If the email associated with your Microsoft account is from a different provider like you can skip this section because your email address won't be affected. During the waiting period, however, your inbox will continue to receive email messages. If the email address associated with your Microsoft account ends in or closing the Microsoft account deletes any email stored with it after the 60-day waiting period. For example, if you have a Skype subscription, go to the Skype support page and search for cancellation info.įor more info about cancelling a subscription, see Cancel or turn off recurring billing for a Microsoft subscription. Select Cancel and follow the remaining instructions.įor any subscription not listed there, go to the service itself (or to the retailer, if you bought the subscription from a retailer) to cancel. Sign in to Services & subscriptions on the Microsoft account website.įor each paid subscription, go to the subscription you want to cancel and select Payment & billing which appears under the name of the subscription you want to cancel. We strongly recommend that you don't close this account until you've made sure you have no personal or organizational subscriptions or outstanding balances associated with this account. If you have subscription or services outside of Microsoft that are associated with this account, we're unable to cancel those on your behalf. Select any heading below to learn more about what to do before closing your account: For example, use your remaining Online Commercial Support benefit and for developers, transfer any packages you saved on .īefore deleting your account, you may also want to review these articles: Close your account and Can I use Skype without my Microsoft account? And don't forget to consider less common services where you use your account. So, before you close your account, take some time to tie up loose ends, cancel subscriptions, and make sure you don’t leave anything important behind-like files, money from gift cards, or emails. You can't delete just one of these services and keep the others. Office digital perpetual licenses, like Office 2019 Home and StudentĪccount balance, unused Reward points and Microsoft Certification, including passed exams and associated transcripts. It also deletes all the services associated with it, including your: I tried another approach which is to use the soft hyphen e.g.Closing a Microsoft account means you won’t be able to use it to sign in to the Microsoft products and services you’ve been using. If your phone number is prefixed by the words "call us on" rather than "phone" which I initially tested with, then adding a comment inside the number doesn't work. I did run the page through a bot simulator:Īnd the comment didn't show up, so I'm hoping it won't affect Google search.ĬSS would be the best solution for me but is too much of a moving target, so I prefer the 'comment' approach to the javascript one, but I guess different approaches are easier in different cases. The only thing I'm not sure of is how it affects a Google search for the phone number. i.e it stops skype recognising it as a phone number. I tried putting a comment in the middle of my phone number:Īnd this seems to work.
It seems the skype plugin has changed again as the code generated by skype (in my version of Chrome) is different from that shown by Madmartigan I tried the (updated) css as suggested by hans, but it doesn't work in the latest version of Chrome (17.0.963.78 m) You will get a flash of ugliness first, but the setTimeout is necessary because the Skype content is generated just after the page is loaded. The only way I found to deal with this intrusion is by removing the markup with javascript.Įxample using jQuery: tTimeout(function(), 100) // If it doesn't work, set a higher value
Of course, we can't really expect our users to do this.Ĭopy and pasting a Skype'd phone number in rich text (like in an email, WYSIWYG or Word document) may end up something like this: begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 55 end_of_the_skype_highlightingĪwful, and there's no definitive way to prevent it. I was surprised to see so many people misunderstand the desire to disable this from a web developer's point of view, and offer solutions to turn it off by changing browser settings and the like. Apparently the tag no longer works, and the Skype plugin is as intrusive as ever - ruining SKU and part numbers in some instances (incorrectly interpreting them as phone numbers). After searching Google for an answer to this, it seems the issue still persists as we approach the year 2012.