{"id":8249,"date":"2019-07-11T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2019-11-14T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:02:09","slug":"remove-or-disable-read-only-in-powerpoint-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/remove-or-disable-read-only-in-powerpoint-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove or Disable Read-only in PowerPoint Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we enable read only feature in PowerPoint presentation, we do not want any changes from others. But if you get a PowerPoint presentation from others and want to remove\/disable read-only mode, how can you do? Now in this article, we will list possible cases for you to remove or disable read only in PowerPoint presentation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#case1\">Case 1: The PowerPoint is marked as final for read only<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#case2\">Case 2: The PowerPoint is restricted editing and you have the password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#case3\">Case 3: Without password, you can only reach the read only PowerPoint presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-or-disable-read-only-in-powerpoint.png\" alt=\"remove or disable read only in powerpoint\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-or-disable-read-only-in-powerpoint.png 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-or-disable-read-only-in-powerpoint-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"case1\"><strong>Case 1: The PowerPoint is marked as final for read only<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If your PowerPoint presentation is set with Marked as Final, you will see a yellow message bar at the top of the presentation as the screenshot shows. You can click Edit Anyway to edit the presentation every time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"120\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/the-marked-as-final-yellow-message-bar.jpg\" alt=\"the marked as final yellow message bar\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/the-marked-as-final-yellow-message-bar.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/the-marked-as-final-yellow-message-bar-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nFor you to disable read-only in future reading, you can go to <strong>File<\/strong>&gt; <strong>Info<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Protect Presentation<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Marked as Final<\/strong>.\u00a0 After that, you need to save the changes in presentation. Next time, you can directly open and edit the PowerPoint presentation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/choose-mark-as-final.jpg\" alt=\"choose mark as final\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/choose-mark-as-final.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/choose-mark-as-final-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"case2\"><strong>Case 2: The PowerPoint is restricted editing and you have the password<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When you have the modify password, there are multiple methods to remove read only restriction from PowerPoint presentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Directly enter the password to open the presentation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"125\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9732 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/enter-password-to-modify.jpg\" alt=\"enter password to modify\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/enter-password-to-modify.jpg 323w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/enter-password-to-modify-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Click<strong> File<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Save as<\/strong> on the left top corner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9772 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/choose-save-as.jpg\" alt=\"choose save as\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Click<strong> Tools<\/strong> &gt; <strong>General options<\/strong> in the Save as interface.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"204\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/general-save-as-options.jpg\" alt=\"general save as options\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/general-save-as-options.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/general-save-as-options-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Delete the password in Password to modify filed and then click the <strong>OK<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"414\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9742 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-modify-password.jpg\" alt=\"remove the modify password\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-modify-password.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-modify-password-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> You will be backed to the Save as interface, click the Save button and confirm this operation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"254\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/confirm-the-save-as-option.jpg\" alt=\"confirm the save as option\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/confirm-the-save-as-option.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/confirm-the-save-as-option-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, the read-only password is removed and it is convenient to edit the presentation content.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"case3\"><strong>Case 3: Without password, you can only reach the read only PowerPoint presentation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you forgot or lost the editing password, how can you get rid of the password restriction to edit the read only PowerPoint presentation? You need the <strong>PowerPoint read only password remover<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/powerpoint-unprotect-genius\/\"><strong>iSunshare PowerPoint Unprotect Genius<\/strong><\/a> is highly recommended here. This software can remove read only password from PowerPoint 97\/2000\/2003\/2007\/2010\/2013\/2016\/2019 presentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Open the software and click the <strong>Add<\/strong> button to import the read only ppt\/pptx file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> After the file is listed in the File Name box, you can click the <strong>Start<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> In the end, you will get the unprotected PowerPoint presentation under the source presentation, which you can open it without password restriction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-read-only-password-with-powerpoint-unprotect-genius.jpg\" alt=\"remove read only password with powerpoint unprotect genius\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-read-only-password-with-powerpoint-unprotect-genius.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-read-only-password-with-powerpoint-unprotect-genius-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If your PowerPoint presentation is in .*ppt format, you will get the editing password recovered in the end. Then, you can enter the password and follow the steps in Case 2 to disable read only mode.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/remove-or-disable-read-only-in-excel-file\/\">How to Remove or Disable Read Only in Excel File<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/office\/enable-read-only-mode-in-word-document.html\">How to Enable Read Only Mode in Word Document<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/powerpoint-password\/edit-encrypted-read-only-powerpoint-2016-presentation.html\">How to Edit Encrypted Read Only PowerPoint<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/office\/3-methods-to-make-a-ms-powerpoint-2010-presentation-read-only.html\">How to Make a MS PowerPoint 2010 Presentation Read Only<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/powerpoint-password\/unlock-read-only-powerpoint-presentation.html#section1\">How to Unlock Read Only PowerPoint Presentation with or without Password<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we enable read only feature in PowerPoint presentation, we do not want any changes from others. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9778,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions\/9778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}