Excel Protected View: How to Remove It (Once and for All)?

This essay published byMiniTool organizationis a review onMicrosoft ExcelProtected View.

What Is Protected View?

Protected View is an isolated sandbox environment for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

It is offered by Microsoft Office to replace the former Isolated Conversion Environment.

Protected View is a read-only mode where most editing functions are disabled.

Protected View is available forOffice 365, Office 2019, Office 2016, Office 2013, and Office 2010.

Why Use Protected View?

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Protected View Cases

When will you encounter Protected View errors?

Which kind of file will be opened in Protected View?

Just as mentioned above, in these situations, you may receive a message of Protected View.

A file is opened online

PROTECTED VIEW Be careful files from the Internet can contain viruses.

Unless you gotta edit, its safer to stay in Protected View.

(yellow warning)

Case 2.

A file is opened from an unsafe location

Protected View This file was opened from a potentially unsafe location.

Click for more details.

(yellow warning) The unsafe location can be your Temporary Internet Files folder.

Unless you better edit, its safer to stay in Protected View.

(yellow warning)

Case 4.

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File validation failure

PROTECTED VIEW Office has detected a problem with this file.

Editing it may harm your box.

click for more details.

(red error)

Case 6.

A file is opened from others OneDrive storage

PROTECTED VIEW This file is from someone elsesOneDrive.

(yellow warning) You may encounter such A warning message when someone shares an OneDrive file with you.

Click for more details.

What is the get genuine Office message?

How to remove the get genuine Office warning?

Why does the get genuine Office banner show and its potential damages?

Then how to get out of Protected View in Excel?

Way 1.

Way 2.

How to Change Excel Protected View prefs?

How to alter the Protected View configs to stop Excel from opening in Protected View once and for all?

Just do like this.

Open an Excel file and clickFile > Options.

In the new Excel Options window, clickTrust Center > Trust Center parameters.

In the next Trust Center window, chooseProtected Viewin the left menu.

Now, specify your parameters.

Otherwise, its safe to stay in Protected View!