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

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.

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.

How to switch to single-page view in Microsoft WordPreview While you can’t use Preview for word processing, it still follows the conventional of infinite scroll and page view with a PDF.

How to enable Protected View in Word 365 The instructions are exactly the same for Microsoft Word, but since some people may only have Word 365 installed, we’ll walk you through the same dialogs.