Unprotecting, at least in Word 2010 is:
Alt-F Files, I Info.
then Tab down to the protect button, hit space bar, and select from the
context menu.
And finally, curse the bloody ribbon. Although this step is optional.
And another way to unblock a file from within Windows Exploder is to hit
space bar on the Unblock button, as Chip said, then route mouse to focus
with Insert-Numpad plus, and then use the Insert-numpad 7 and 9 previous
and next clip hot keys to move to Apply and Ok to click them.
Hth,
Tom
On 1/13/2013 7:57 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
Hi John,
There’s a way you can change a Word document to be unprotected from
within Word, and I think it’s explained in the GW web page, the support
pages, in a KB article (but I can’t remember how).
The other way you can do it is to close down Word, use Windows explorer
to right click the file, choose “properties” from the context menu, and
there will be an “unblock” button in this dialog of file properties
which you can press spacebar on. You lose focus then, so you have to
alt-tab back to this dialog so you can click on “ok”, but then the Word
document is made normal and you can read it.
If the Word document comes attached to an email message, you have to
save it somewhere before you can do this, or you have to learn how to
unprotect it while you stay in Word (sorry, I just don’t remember the
details now on how to do it).
Hth,
Chip
*From:*John Riehl [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 09, 2013 1:12 PM
*To:* gwinfo
*Subject:* problem reqding protected word documents
I’m just learning Office 2010. I’ve received two documents which are
protected. When I open them in Word I hear “protected view” but I can’t
read the document; when I arrow down the screen, Windoweyes 8 is silent.
Anybody got any idea how to fix this?
Thnaks.
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