How to Turn Off, Turn on Enable Editing When Opening Word, Excel

This guide explains how to turn Off, Turn on Enable Editing When Opening Word, Excel, with clear steps, practical tips, and important checks before you begin.

To turn off the Enable Editing feature or the Protected View mode, follow the instructions below:

Go to the File menu on the toolbar

Select Options

Then click Trust Center

The screen will turn to as shown below, continue to click on Trust Center Settings. on the right of the screen.

The Trust Center dialog box appears, select Protected View , where you deselect all the settings as shown below, then click OK.

Finally, you just need to reopen your file without having to worry about the annoyance of Enable Editing anymore.

This is how to turn off Enable Editing when opening Office files.

Good luck!