Office 2013 has a new feature that blocks potentially dangerous files. Personally, I find this pretty damn annoying. Office gives you a random error saying “Word experienced an error trying to open the file”.
You can unblock individual files by selecting document properties and clicking “unblock”:
Personally, I want this behavior gone. Open Word, open Settings and locate the Trust Center section. Click “Trust Center Settings” and locate the “Protected View” area and uncheck all options.
Very helpful. Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteYou can Do it with Excel, POwer point as well
ReplyDeleteTHANKS. PRODUCTIVITY RETURNED
ReplyDeleteThank you! Oh my god, I can't tell you how frustrated I was with this behavior...uninstalled it twice thinking there was a problem with the install since Office 2010 could open all of these files.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, I've looked for this solution for weeks
ReplyDeleteVery frustrating. The error message says nothing about this being a protected document. And if I'm in Outlook and receive a document I can neither preview it nor open it. I have to save it somewhere and then unblock it OR change these protected mode settings which, of course, are not recommended by Microsoft...
ReplyDeleteThis makes absolutely no sense... and this JUST surfaced after upgrading to windows 8.
Well, i have to agree that this behavior should me removed from the final version of office 2013. Thanks for the tip, searched for 1 min before finding your answer. better than finding of myself.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the actual risk in doing this?
ReplyDeleteExcellent fix. Many thanks.
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Thanks so much, you saved my day!
ReplyDeleteThank you sooooo much!!!! This fixed a very frustrating issue!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Very irritating!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the quick fix, I was starting to get insane ;)
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the fix - awesome!
ReplyDeleteI don't understand Microsoft - first they take away the organized start menu and make it more difficult to find programs you want. Now they are preventing you from opening their files! What kind of a business strategy is that lol?
This is not a new feature. It is in Office 2010. What is new is it's behavior under Windows 8. It's a bug: the documents should open in Protected Mode, but they're just failing to open. I'm sure Microsoft will fix it in an update, which will be better than disabling the protection that is being advocated in this blog.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, just got Word 2013, looks amazing, but this thing made schoolwork impossible for me. Great job!
ReplyDeleteThe same problem and inscrutable messaging occurs on Windows 7 as well, so it's not just Windows 8.
ReplyDeleteYou are a legend. What a stupid idiotic setup. Why would Microsoft do this without any blinking warning. Didn't even get an error message just a continual loading screen. Makes me angry they just make things worse.
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's been bugging me for days!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, you've saved me so much wasted time.
ReplyDeleteHa and here I am having reinstalled office 2013 because i thought it was broken! Can't believe that this is the default behaviour as if I download a document from the internet/email that I don't want to read?
ReplyDeleteThank you very much. I had this issue for awhile and this cleared it up!
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