[nabs-l] files in protected view

Thu Aug 9 03:05:07 UTC 2012

Katie,
Thanks. Wow, I did not know there was a way to disable it. I also find this 
new feature annoying.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Katie Wang
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:37 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] files in protected view

Hi Patrick and all,

The Protected View is a feature of MS Word, rather than Outlook, 2010,
and there is actually a way to turn it off permanently. Assuming that
you have Virtual Ribbons enabled, open MS Word, navigate to the File
tab by pressing Alt plus f, then arrow down to select Options. In the
Categories combo box, select Trust Center, then tab over to the Trust
Center Settings button and press Enter. Select Protected View in the
Category combo box, then press Tab. Uncheck the box next to Email
Attachments and you should be set to go. Note that if you regularly
work with files saved in web sharing services such as Dropbox, you may
want to uncheck the box next to Files From The Internet too, as MS
Word would otherwise open any web-based documents in Protected View.
Feel free to ask for clarifications if you have any problems following
these instructions. I was very frustrated with the Protected View when
first switching to MS Office 2010 as well and was glad that I found a
permanent solution via a Google Search. Hope this helps!

Katie

On 8/7/12, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> If you do use the Gmail web interface, viewing documents as HTML is a
> great quick way to view an attachment. I find that searching is much
> easier in HTML than it is in Word and it is also a very efficient and
> accessible way to view PDF files and PowerPoint presentations. In
> fact, when I have a PDF article, I will often email it to myself as an
> attachment and then view it in HTML just to take advantage of the
> navigational ease. However, note that this does not work with scanned
> PDF's. If you want to read a scanned PDF quickly, and have Gmail, what
> I would recommend is to send the PDF to
> convert at robobraille.org
> with the word "doc" in the subject line and nothing in the message
> body. RoboBraille will send the file back to you in Word format and
> you can then view it in HTML.
> Best,
> Arielle
>
> On 8/7/12, Danielle Sykora <dsykora29 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> If you open a file in microsoft word and it is in protected view, all
>> you have to do is hit F6 and tab to the enable editing button.
>> Hope this helps,
>> Danielle
>>
>> On 8/7/12, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Joshua,
>>>
>>> Your procedure will work assuming that the person doing it is checking
>>> their
>>> email using the Gmail Web interface. If you are opening the attachment
>>> using
>>> Microsoft Outlook or a similar email client, the attached file will open
>>> in
>>> protected view once Microsoft Word is launched.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Joshua Lester
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 11:30 AM
>>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] files in protected view
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>> All you have to do, is instead of hitting view as HTML, just open the
>>> document, and it will save to Microsoft Word.
>>> Then, just open the document up in Word, and you can work with it.
>>> You can't deal with it in an E-mail, though.
>>> Blessings, Joshua
>>>
>>> On 8/7/12, Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey NABS:
>>>> I'm really not sure where to go with this one. I have word 2010. When
>>>> I get files as e-mail attachments and try to open them, they open in
>>>> protected view. This means I can't work with them in any way. Is there
>>>> a way to turn off protected view, so that it doesn't happen every time
>>>> I get an e-mail with an attachment I want to read?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
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