Is Design Mode greyed out in Excel? To enable Design Mode in Excel, take these steps to fix the misconfiguration or ...

This topic covers specific information about using ActiveX controls on worksheets and chart sheets. For general information on adding and working with controls, see Using ActiveX Controls on a ...

After Office 2024 launches in October, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio client apps. ActiveX is a legacy software framework introduced in 1996 ...

Earlier this week we learned of a Flash vulnerability being exploited in the wild by loading it through ActiveX in Microsoft Excel. The real news--the Flash vulnerability--was almost overshadowed by ...

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 ...

KB 3008923 crashes IE, KB 3002339 still hanging on install, KB 2986475 still pulled -- but there's a small silver lining Overnight, Microsoft pulled two high-profile screwed-up patches: KB 3011970 and ...

To enable a xcopy deployment and not depend on a custom installer, we may have routines that will ensure the the dependent DLLs are extracted at runtime and in the case of an ActiveX control, regsvr32 ...

In early January you may have read posts on security distribution lists regarding two ActiveX Controls released by Microsoft. We have investigated those controls and fortunately, they are not ...