Protected View Word: Ways to Remove the Read Only Message in Word

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Instructions to remove Read only Word mode

Method 1: Turn off in the Word interface

When we open the Word document will display the message as shown. We just need to click the Enable Editing button to enable editing Word documents.

Method 2: Turn off Protected View

Step 1:

In the interface of Word we click on the word File in the top corner. You will then see the Protected View mode display as shown below. We click on Protected View Settings .

Step 2:

Now showing the new interface, we need to uncheck the 3 content items as shown in the image to remove the Protected View mode for Word documents. Click OK to save the changes.

Thus the document can then be edited as desired. By removing this Protected View mode, any documents that you later work on will no longer display a Read only message.

Method 3: Change the properties of the file

In some cases, even though you have tried to turn off Protected View in Word, but the Read only message still appears, you can try to change the file's properties.

Step 1:

Right-click the name of the document and select Properties .

Step 2:

Display the new interface in the General tab , users look down the Attributes section and uncheck the Read-only box and click Apply> OK to save.

Method 4: Create another backup

The last way to do it manually is to copy the entire contents of the document in Read only mode, then paste it into a completely new Word file and save.

So you have a few ways to turn off the Read only message when opening Word files downloaded from the Internet. If you try the three methods above, you should use the fourth method to manually copy all the data to make a new copy.

I wish you successful implementation!