How to Open a Word Document From Excel Using VBA. Millions of small businesses all around the world use Microsoft Word and Excel daily to create correspondence or crunch numbers.

Disable Protected View Unblock file manually Repair the Office file While we have taken a Word document as an example, a similar procedure is to be followed for Excel and PowerPoint files too.

1] Unblock the Word file Maybe the file is blocked, which is why Word cannot open the file; this usually occurs when you receive a file from Outlook or a similar email client.