1. In the Ribbon, select File > Options > Trust Center. 2. Select Trust Center Settings, and then select Protected View. 3. Remove the check marks from the three check boxes in Protected View. 4. Click OK to save the changes. Protected View messages will now no longer be displayed in Excel.

1. Open Excel, and click File or the Office button > Options. See screenshot: 2. In the Options dialog, click Trust Center > Trust Center Settings. See screenshot: 3. Then click Protected View in the left pane, and then uncheck the settings you want. See screenshot: 4. Then click OK > OK to close dialogs, and it stops protected view in Excel.

If you disable or don’t configure this setting, text-based files opened from an untrusted location are not opened in Protected View. This setting can also be configured by an administrator as a policy via Group Policy or the Microsoft 365 cloud policy service. Note: This policy setting only applies to Microsoft 365 products.

This article details the steps to disable the Protected View feature in MS Office applications. 1. Open MS Office app Excel, Word, or PowerPoint. 2. Click on the File menu. 3. Select Options at the bottom. 4. Go to the Trust Center tab. 5. Click on Trust Center Settings button on the right side. 6.