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Outlook/Word 2013 - Cannot open ANY docs due to Protected View
All,
After using Office 2013 for the better part of two years - today I go to do a Quick Print (to my PDF Printer) on a Word attachment within a Outlook email and get this annoying message:
Office has detected a problem with this file. To help protect your computer - this file cannot be opened.
Then if I click on the Show Help button - I see this:
"The Office File Validation feature has blocked this file from opening as it may contain harmful content.
More information about this error message online."
Then I try another email and another - ALL give me the same message.
I have gone into the Trust Center settings in Word and Outlook and turned off everything I could find on Protected view, added all local drives as Trusted locations etc etc and NOTHING worked.
I do not see any references to Office File Validation and need to find a way to stop it.
I cannot find any way to print any Word doc to any printer - if it is an attachment within a email.
My gut feel is that this last Office Update pack (Sept 2016) via Windows Update -which I applied a few days ago - has now compromised my scene.
Anyone else come across this - with any way to shut this crap off?
VP