[nabs-l] reading protective attachments from ms office applications

[Katie Wang]

Hi, Sam, Amy, and all,

You are right that this is a MS Office 2010 issue and can be quite
annoying. One quick fix someone has suggested on this list is copying
and pasting all the text from the attachment you are trying to view
into a blank Word document. A more permanent solution involves a few
more steps. In MS Word, press Alt f and select Options. Arrow down to
Trust Center, then press Tab a few times to get to the Trust Center
Setttings button and press Enter. In the Category combo box, select
Protected View, then press Tab to make sure that Protected View is
turned off for both email attachments and files  originated from the
Internet. Press OK a few times until you exit all of the dialog boxes.
You only need to do this once - Attachments will no longer open in
Protected View after you change this setting.

Hope this helps and let me know if anything I said is unclear!

Katie


On 4/18/13, Sam Nelson <samnelson1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Amy,
>  Nice to meet you, I'm new to the list.
>  When I  open  an attachment  it won't read either and says it's in
> protected mode, you have to go to the file menu and hit save. It'll say
> something like,"do you wish to inable saving" or something  like that. Just
> say yes and save it and it should work. It's an MS 2010 thing, I really
> don't understand why  it's set up that way.
>  I  hope this helps.
>  Sam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Amy Sabo
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:46 PM
> To: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLIND STUDENTS
> Subject: [nabs-l] reading protective attachments from ms office
> applications
>
> Hello all,
>
> I hope that you all are doing well. I have a problem and, maybe someone can
> help me out on this. When I get attachments I save them into my documents
> folder and, then I go to open them but, they are protected. I have tried to
> unprotect them but, I cannot do it.
>
> So, I was wondering if there was a way on how I can unprotect these files
> and, read them with using jfw?
>
>
> Thanks,
> amy
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