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How to Unlock a Read Only PowerPoint Presentation in 4 Steps

Source: WikiHow If you see text in a banner that warns you the file is read-only, the original author marked it as final and discourages editing. This wikiHow will teach you how to unlock a read-only PowerPoint manually. Otherwise, you can click Edit Anyway within the banner. 1 Open the PowerPoint project. You can open PowerPoint from your Start menu or Applications folder, then open the project by going to File > Open. On the other hand, you can also right-click the file in either your file manager or Finder and select Open with > PowerPoint. 2 Click the File tab. You'll see this in the editing ribbon above the document space with Animations and Home. 3 Click Protect Presentation. You'll see this with an icon of a lock to the right of the Info menu. A menu will drop down from the lock icon. 4 Click Mark as Final. Clicking here will undo the lock and remove the presentation protection. The "Read-Only" text is gone from the title and the yellow banner will disapp...