Creating a Microsoft Word document and sending it to business contacts by email or uploading it to a shared workspace can leave the document vulnerable to editing and changes that you haven't authorized. One way to protect the contents of your Word document is to restrict editing permissions before the document leaves your computer.

The Office 2016 for Mac apps are sandboxed and hence they lack the required permissions to access external files. Developers should use the GrantAccessToMultipleFiles command (see following section) to avoid this experience. This command lets your app get permission for all the.

This will prevent other people from editing important, commercially sensitive or confidential information. Edit permissions in a document with Word's Restricting Formatting and Editing tools. Tips • If you want to disable protection on the Word document, open the document and access the Restricting Formatting and Editing pane.

Click the Stop Protection button at the bottom of the pane and enter your password to remove the document's protection. • Only people with the password can remove the protection from a Word document. If you want permission to edit a document restricted by another user, you'll need to ask that user for the password, or ask them to edit the document's permissions again and add you as an exception.

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New features in PowerPoint 2016 manifest its top spot as the best option for smart and creative presentations., or an important spreadsheet — but when you go to open up the appropriate Microsoft Office program, you’re met with an error message that just won’t leave. The dreaded “Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office” message can be a real drag, but fortunately there are fixes available. The most frustrating part of this particular issue is that it’s so difficult to diagnose exactly what the problem is.

However, one of these techniques should get you the answers that you’re looking for. Follow each process in the order that they’re listed here, and you’ll be closer to getting Microsoft Office back in action, so you can get on with the project at hand. Repair Microsoft Office If it seems that your installation of Microsoft Office If you can't open a PDF document, it might be because it's corrupted. Here's everything you can do to fix a corrupted PDF file. Or otherwise damaged, your first port of call should be the repair function. The process will check for common issues and could potentially fix the problem automatically, so it’s a great starting point. Open the Control Panel and navigate to Programs > Programs and Features.

Scroll through the list of software that’s installed on your computer and find your installation of Microsoft Office. Activate the Windows Search Service One common cause of the stuck configuration dialog is a situation where the 32-bit version of Microsoft Office is installed to a 64-bit version of Windows.

If this is the case, the message presented to the user will reference 64-bit components. Happily, the fix for this problem is relatively straightforward. To get started, close any instance of the Office program that you’re trying to open up and then head to the Control Panel. Navigate to Programs > Programs and Features and then click Turn Windows features on or off. Find Windows Search in the list, and ensure that its box is checked. Then click OK — you may need to Windows 10 can be annoying by the way it restarts without any notice.

Fortunately, there's a way around that. For the changes to take effect. Start Office in Safe Mode Sometimes the configuration message can hang as a result of third-party add-ins.

By starting Microsoft Office in Safe Mode is an inbuilt troubleshooting feature that allows you to fix issues at the root, without non-essential applications interfering. You can access Safe Mode in various ways, even if Windows 10 no longer boots. And circumventing these additional components, you can determine whether or not this is the case.

To activate safe mode, search for your desired Office program using the search bar, then hold CTRL as you click on it. The following message will appear. Click Yes and see whether the program opens as normal. If it does, then you can disable the add-ins you have installed individually to find out which one is causing problems. Disabling Add-ins Head to File > Options and navigate to the Add-ins section.

Make sure that the drop-down menu is set to COM Add-ins and then click the Go button beside it. Disable Add-ins can completely change your workflow. If you no longer have to leave your document for small tasks, your productivity will soar. Try out these 10 mini apps for Microsoft Word. And restart the program to make sure that things run normally.