As Scorpio posted, this view is intended to protect against security breaches. The way to open individual protected files is so quick and easy that I'm happy to preserve my computer against possible corruption. The key sequence is: Alt-f I E In some cases, I find I need to press alt before f, but that's the only variant I've found.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lynn White Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 9:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] A Word Mystery Hi Jason, That's very interesting. As Mike sent out, you are also showing that the trust center is also found in preferences. Thanks as well. On 1/21/2017 7:31 PM, Jason White wrote: > In Microsoft Word's Preferences, there are actually multiple controls the > setting of which determines under what circumstances protected View is > invoked. I remember having to find more than one setting to turn off Protected > View in Microsoft Word 2016. > > Start by going to File -> Options, then, in the General category, find "Open > e-mail attachments and other uneditable files in reading view". Make sure this > is not checked. > > Next, in the list of option categories, move down to "Trust Center", then > tab across to the "Trust Center Settings" button. Select this button, which > will > open a list of categories. In my case, focus is placed on "Macro Settings". > Move down once to "Protected View", then tab across to the checkboxes that let > you turn protected view on or off for various files. For example, I made sure > to turn "Enable protected view for outlook attachments" off. In fact, I turned > them all off. > > Lynn White <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm using Office 365 and Jaws 18. >> >> >> When I get a document from this file sending service called Hightail, the >> Word document is shown to be in protected view. This is happening to me on >> two different machines. >> >> >> The files are not protected. I sent the file I received to the individual >> who sent it to me and they opened it and it was not a protected file that >> they saw. >> >> >> A friend of mine uses Thunderbird, it reads just fine. Any ideas? >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
