
Protected View for legacy and non-native formats Administrative Templates-> Microsoft Outlook -> Security-> disable the setting: Use Protected View for attachments form internal senders.If this setting has been set as a Group Policy setting, then it can’t be modified as a user but requires an administrator to alter the following setting: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\ \.HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\ \Outlook\.If so, either delete the value or set it to 0. If this is not the case for you, then verify if one of the following Registry values exist with its value set to 1. When you are using an Exchange account then, by default, Protected View for all attachments from internal emails is disabled while it is left enabled for external emails.

Disabling Protected View for internal emails only To disable this see Don’t open Word attachments in Reading Layout. Note 2: Word documents may get opened in the Reading Layout.

This can be disabled as described in Do not always ask before opening this type of file. Note 1: You now may get prompted to Open or Save the attachment first. Once disabled, Word, Excel and PowerPoint attachments will open directly in edit mode.

Protected View is a security feature of Word, Excel and PowerPoint which is separate from Outlook's Attachments Security (blocking) feature. Is there a way to "unblock" these attachments by default? Upon opening attachments, they get opened in a Protected View which prevents me from editing the file unless I first press on the "Enable Editing" button.Īs I'm always very careful about which attachments I open and often need to edit and return attachments, I find this additional step a bit annoying.
