How to Enable Editing in Protected View MS word Document? Why MS Word Document Show Protected View?ĭue to security and windows 10 or 11 can’t trust the downloaded document or excel or data present in the document or excel and it says this file is originated from an internet location and might be unsafe and when you open ms word document download from elsewhere like internet or you may have received document from other computer and open it on your computer then due to security or if file contains virus or malware in document then it show protected view notification on top of the document and you will not be able to edit that document. Sometimes windows firewall will also lead to this issue and cant open or still shows protected view if windows cant trust the document. If you have unchecked all options in trust center settings and you are still receiving same protected view error then you need to disable windows defender firewall settings on your windows computer and see you can open document or not.

Can’t Remove Protected View Document in MS Word or Excel

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