After Office 2024 launches in October, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio client apps.

In this post, we show you how to change color of ActiveX Control buttons in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint programs.

With Office 2024, ActiveX controls in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio will be turned off by default, and users will not receive any warnings.

A check box in Excel can use either Excel's form controls or ActiveX controls for formatting. Form controls offer simple formatting, as well as the ability to add a check box to a chart sheet or ...

Form Control objects are self-contained within Excel, while ActiveX Control objects use Visual Basic for Applications for formatting and scripting.

Another patch, KB 2553154, is killing some Excel 2010 and 2013 macros, saying the ActiveX control “has stopped working in Excel.” Admins are reporting that KB 3008923 has broken modal dialogs ...

At times, you might not want to prevent macros, ActiveX control, data connections, etc., from running in a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation. If so, you can disable or ...

Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996. 1 Many ActiveX controls run only on Windows and with Microsoft products such as Internet Explorer, Word, and Excel. JavaScript, another cross-language ...

The bug is in the ActiveX control that displays Excel spreadsheets within IE, Microsoft said. The timing of the disclosure was particularly awkward for Microsoft.

I am writing an app that exports data to excel. It reads existing text files and parses them into columns , which is then made into a CSV file and using an activeX interface, loaded into Excel and ...