Microsoft Word: ‘You can’t make this change because this selection is locked.’¶

For some stupid reason, you may be required to write a stupid Word document by editing a stupid .dotx template. Even you are supposed to change some part of the stupid template, you may get the following stupid error:

You can't make this change because this selection is locked.

There are several proposed solution for this stupid problem but only one of them worked for me. [1]

If your Word is missing Developer tab at the top, first go to Options → Customize Ribbon. and enable the Developer option.

../../_images/msword-1.png — Developer Options¶

Then click Design Mode to remove the stupid restriction.

../../_images/msword-2.png — Design Mode¶

Thank LaTeX developers.

Published on: 2020-03-06