It is always annoying when people expect you to collaborate with them and they send you locked files. This trick only works for documents that are protected for Review. Not when you can not even open them. So, let us assume you have a Protected.docx file that looks something like this. Notice the disabled Delete Comment, Accept Changes and so buttons. Step 1: Open the box A good thing to know is that .

Last update: 2017-11-18 for High Sierra Luckily we now have a real shortcut without hacks using ⌃⌘Q One of the issues that rises the most eyebrows while using Mac OS X is that there is no native way of simply locking your screen with a keyboard shortcut. Finally I have managed to compile all of the stuff on the Internet to come up with a simple yet real solution to this problem If you can not be bothered by reading the whole article here is the short version: