Don't know if this will work but did on one protected document in 2010. I hit select all and pasted it in to a new document. It read much better.
HTH From: Amanda Lee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 12:14 AM To: Chip Orange; 'John Riehl' Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: problem reqding protected word documents I receive many Word format files in email and it really is tedious, to say the least to deal with them as they aren't read by Window-Eyes while in 'PROTECTED" view. Can only read so much of what is on the screen with the mouse keys in WE. I can occasionally, but not consistently click on the means to allow the file to be read in UNPROTECTED mode. I hope a better solution to this is available in the future. I will indeed look for the article which addresses this issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: Chip Orange <mailto:[email protected]> To: 'John Riehl' <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:57 PM Subject: RE: problem reqding protected word documents 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. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
