Debra, I now use Office 2013 in Windows 10 and find that when opening files from email, the document does first display in a read only mode--which is pretty much unreadable with WE, JAWS or NVDA. This is a behavior I did not experience when using Office 2010 in Windows 7.
After opening the document, in most cases, pressing the F6 key (once and sometimes twice) will present a dialog that reads as follows. If you aren't expecting it and if you don't actively try to find it by using the F6 key, it doesn't display--at least it hasn't for me. Here's how the dialog box reads: "Be careful-email attachments can contain viruses. Unless you need to edit, it's safer to stay in Protected View. Link" Below this statement, there are two controls: * Enable Editing Button * Close this message Button If you select the "enable editing" control by pressing enter when you land on it, you can read and work in the document. And, once you have saved the document, it should remain in edit mode at any point you retrieve it in the future. Hope this works well for you. Richard Petty He, Him, His [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Debra Hill via Talk Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 9:08 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Debra Hill <[email protected]> Subject: Read Only Hi, It seems my MS Word documents have been made into read only. Can someone tell me how to change this so I can read the document? I am using Windows 10 with WE 9.54 and MS Office 2013. Thanks much! Be blessed! Deborah c _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/richard.petty% 40earthlink.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
