Home tab features blocked out. How do I restore them?

[James Dobbins]

I was working in a Word 2007 document and suddenly, in the Home tab, the
features are grayed out and I cannot access them. Things like font controls
(Bold, underline, etc.) are suddenly unavailable. It is acting like a
template, but is not a template. It is a .docx file. How do I recover
access to the Home features? If i call up another document, I do not have
this problem. I must have mistakenly saved the document in a form that has
blocked access to the normal editing features, but I have no clue how I did
that, or how to undo whatever it was I did.

 

[Stefan Blom]

It seems as if you have applied some kind of document protection. On the
Developer tab, click Protect Document to show the Restrict Formatting and
Editing pane. Click Stop Protection.