Tech blogger Amit Agarwal explains how to disable Word's "Protected View." The following is republished with permission from Digital Inspiration.

1] Disable Protected View As mentioned earlier, Protected View is the name of the function that protects your system from getting frequent attacks by malware while opening a Word file.

How to Disable the Restrictions on Opening Documents in Word 2007. Microsoft Office users can restrict access to Word documents in a couple of different ways. Marking a file "read-only" prevents ...