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Microsoft Office 2010 includes a new feature called “Protected View” which allows documents to be opened from network locations safely. In order to edit and/or print a protected document, however, you need to click the “Enable Editing” button.

This feature is usually seamless, and clicking the button should not change the document. However, depending on where the document originated and how you opened it, enabling editing can occasionally interfere with formatting, printing, or other components of a document.

This guide will explain how to set up a trusted local folder that will allow you to open documents without Protected View.

 

NOTE: You will need to set the Trust Center location in each  program – Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You will only need to set this up once, and the programs will remember from that point forward.

1. First, create a new local folder in My Documents. In my example, I want to download documents from the university Wiki, so I’ve named my folder “Wiki documents.”

2. Once you have created the folder, open Word (or Excel or PowerPoint).

3. Go to “File” –> “Options”

 

4. From the list, choose “Trust Center.”

5. On the lower-right corner of the window, click the “Trust Center Settings” button.

6. From the list, choose “Trusted Location.”

7. In this window, click the “Add new location” button.

 

8. Click “Browse” to navigate to the folder you created in My Documents (e.g. “Wiki
documents”) and click “OK.”

 

9. Click OK to close the Trust Center windows.

10. Repeat 1-9 for MS Excel and MS PowerPoint, if needed.

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