In addition to Rod's suggestion, here's an article written by Jeremy Curry several years ago. I assume it applies to later versions of Microsoft Office as well. Rebecca Here's the link, with the text below.
http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/?kbnumber=GWKB2049 GWKB2049 - Exit Protected View In Microsoft Office Author: Jeremy Curry Date Added : 12/02/2013 Last Modified : 12/02/2013 When a document is in Protected View, you will not be able to read or edit the document. When this happens, you will hear "Protected View" announced after the file name. Documents will open in Protected View if Office 2010 or 2013 determine that the file originated from the internet or a potentially unsafe location (such as a shared folder on your local network or an email attachment). To exit Protected View, perform the following steps: 1. Press F6 2. Tab to the Enable Editing button 3. Press Enter If you find that the above steps are not working for you, there is an alternate way to exit Protected View. To use this method, perform the following steps: 1. Press Alt 2. Press F to open the File button 3. Press I to focus the Info tab 4. Press E to activate the Enable Editing button You will then exit Protected View and you can begin working with the document. For a video tutorial on how to turn off Protected View, please visit http://www.gwmicro.com/Training/Tutorials/ . Permanently Disable Protected View It is possible to completely turn off Protected View, so that you do not need to turn it off on a per document basis. To permanently disable Protected View, perform the following steps: 1. Press Alt-F to open the File button 2. Press T to open Options 3. Down Arrow to Trust Center 4. Press Alt-T to activate the Trust Center Settings button 5. Down Arrow to Protected View 6. Tab to the Enable Protected View for files originating from the Internet check box 7. Press Space to uncheck the box 8. Tab to the Enable Protected View for files located in potentially unsafe locations check box 9. Press Space to uncheck the box 10. Tab to the Enable Protected View for Outlook attachments check box 11. Press Space to uncheck the box 12. Tab to the OK button 13. Press Enter and the Trust Center dialog will close 14. Tab to the OK button 15. Press Enter and the Word Options dialog will close -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+drlineberger=embarqmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rod Hutton via Talk Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2017 3:34 PM To: Ted Larson; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: RE: perplexing outlook attachment Hi Ted, Rather than Alt-7, Control-Alt-A brings up a dialog for saving attachments. Protected view denotes a document originating on the web. You can designate it as unprotected by viewing its properties in the folder where you saved it. Within the properties dialog, find a control named unblock, activate this, and then tab to Ok to save the setting. Hth, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Ted Larson via Talk Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2017 12:10 PM To: t...@window-eyes.com Subject: perplexing outlook attachment Dear List: I am using Microsoft office outlook 2016 on my windows ten computer. I received an email saying it had an attachment. When I hit the alt-7 it said attachment not found. In the process of forwarding it to my wife to see if the attachment would show up on her computer, I did the control-F to set up forwarding and as I tabbed past the subject, it listwed the attachment and it said to use alt-down arrow to open the options menu selected button. By doing that, I got into the context menu and I arrowed down to open and then I hit enter there. It opened the document saying it was in protected view. I was able to read the document with no trouble. 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