Thread: [Solved] Word documents protected
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Old 09-08-2017, 05:52 PM
Fiannucci Fiannucci is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2013
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Default Word documents protected

Good Evening,

I am by no means a Word expert and have run into a problem. When I open a Word document I get the message that the document is "locked for editing by another user". I know that I am the only one trying to access the file. Also if I check the info option I am told that the document is protected. So, my questions are
1. How to I prevent this protection from being applied to new documents?
2. How can I retroactively unprotect the documents I have already created?

I should mention that all the documents in question are the result of using an existing file so perhaps the issue was with that file.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Frank

Last edited by Charles Kenyon; 09-14-2017 at 01:58 PM. Reason: Mark as solved by Graham Mayon
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