How to disable Protected View in Microsoft Word Tired of having to manually enable editing whenever you open an attachment? Here's how to skip that step.

Find out how you can disable Protected View & remove Read-only in Microsoft Office programs like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc, via the Trust Center.

However, if you do not want to do that, you can always open PDF files in Protected View in Word. It helps you block any macros from running right after opening the file in Word.

Microsoft Office 2010 includes a new "Protected View" that, by default, will open all Outlook attachments and documents downloaded from the Internet in "read-only" mode.