Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Remove Protected View Completely (Registry hack)

Remove Protected View Completely.

This is a registry hack and ensure that the user doing this has complete mastery over Windows registry.

Go to regedit and add this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\Security\FileValidation 
Add: “EnableOnLoad”=dword:00000000

Source: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/0fdf86d5-4cfb-480c-b672-6762f77112b9/completely-disable-protected-view-in-excel-2010?forum=excel