Help! How can I “unprotect” word documents that PC thinks are protected!
Is there an option somewhere I can reset, or de-select?!!!
- Jinx
(1) Use Windows Explorer to find the document.
(2) Once you’ve found the document in WE, right-click on the name of or thecicon for the document, then click on “Properties”.
(3) In “Attributes”, click on “Read-only” so that there isn’t an “x” next to it.
(4) Click on “OK”.
Define “protected”… Giles is correct in what he says about “read-only” files, but if you are getting “access denied” messages, then it’s something else - usually permissions, but this could be caused by many different things. For example, if you have a laptop and logon to a domain account at work but the local machine account at home, your files might only have permissions set up for the domain account. Also, ownership could have screwed up somehow and this might be affecting things.
Could you elaborate?
MS Word has a ‘Protect Document’ feature (for Tracked Changes, Comments, and Forms).
Open up the MS Word document. Click Tools > Unprotect Document.
I shoul have mentioned this was a PC at work. Although it did not happen to all my files, it was a glitch within global settings that only my Administrator could correct. What a pain! Not sure why it happened and why it seemed to be selective to only certain files…but at least it’s fixed! Thanks, y’all! - Jinx