I'm not sure what version of Word we're talking about here, but in Word 
2013, for a single document, I just hit alt+f, which takes me to the 
Info option in the file pull down. I then hit tab twice to get to the 
button that unprotected the file and press the space bar. This is when I 
open a document on a shared drive or from some other location where it's 
protected.

If I'm viewing a document that was an attachment to an Outlook message 
then I use the same steps above, but I end up in the save as dialog and 
I save it to a local drive before editing it.

I need to follow the steps below to keep Office from protecting these 
files in the first place.

On 08/05/2015 11:02 AM, Ana G wrote:
> I haven't done this in a while so I may be missing something.
>
> To disable protected view for a single document in Word, simply press
> F12 to save. When you do, you get a warning that tells you to continue
> only if you trust the source. I think you press enter on OK or Enable
> Saving at that point. I believe you get the Save As dialog after that.
> Proceed as usual. I feel like I'm missing a step, so you may need to do
> something else.
>
> word protects documents from certain sources. When I was teaching at a
> community college, all my students homework came to me protected, so
> having to unprotect all 60 to 90 documents once or twice a week so I
> could write comments was a major pita. You can tell Word not to do that
> by going into Files then Options (alt+f, t), down-arrowing to Trust
> Center, tabbing to Microsoft Word Trust Center Settings and pressing
> enter, Down-arrowing to Protected View, tabbing through the options and
> unchecking all of them, then hitting enter on OK.
>
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