How to Disable Office 2010 Protected View Feature

The Protected View feature is a feature found in Microsoft Office 2010. This feature itself is useful for securing document files by limiting editing of the file. Not a few people who are actually damaged by this feature, especially now that many people are downloading documents from the internet.

The Protected View feature is a feature found in Microsoft Office 2010. This feature itself is useful for securing document files by limiting editing of the file. Not a few people who are actually damaged by this feature, especially now that many people are downloading documents from the internet.

The background of the development of this feature is the rise of computer viruses that threaten the operation of Windows-based systems, this platform is the target of hackers to launch their actions. Not only that, the applications contained in the Windows Operating System also become targets on hackers.

This MS Office Protected View feature will prevent users from opening MS Office Documents obtained from the internet.

Then how to disable, to disable this feature is very easy.

#1: First run Microsoft Word 2010. After the MS Word window opens, click the File menu in the upper left and then select Options. Later the Word Options dialog box will appear, on the left side of the list, select Trust Center, after you select it, please click Trust Center Settings.

#2: The Trust Center dialog box will appear, on the left click Protected View.

#3: Remove the check mark on this option:

• Enable Protected View for files originating from the Internet
• Enable Protected View for files located in potentially unsafe locations
• Enable Protected View for Outlook attachments

#4: After that press Ok.

This method can also be used to deactivate Protected View in Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010. If this feature has been disabled you can open documents that you downloaded from various sources, and when the document opens it is in an editing mode.