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

Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in the Office suite, starting in October with the release of Office 2024.

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

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 precedent is set, as Microsoft killed a Yahoo ActiveX control with its last round of updates.

The updates will include a fix for a widely reported vulnerability in Microsoft Word, as well as changes to the way Internet Explorer (IE) handles ActiveX that might cause headaches for some.