Microsoft's Protected View feature tries to protect you against potentially malicious files and documents. Here's how to use it.

File Block in Microsoft Office prevents outdated file types from opening and can cause your file to open in Protected View via Trust Center.

Because sometimes (a lot of the time), Protected View isn't enough to guard against potentially malicious Office documents.

Likewise, anyone who opens a presentation you send to them via email will open it in protected view if this feature is enabled in their version of PowerPoint.

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.

When you go on to open a Microsoft Office file, you may have noticed that it is opened in Protected View. When files are opened in Protected View, you can read them, with minimal risks to your ...