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.

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 announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month.

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

However, ActiveX eventually became a security threat that the tech giant's engineers are understandably trying to remove. Despite being nearly 30 years old, Microsoft still supports ActiveX in ...

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 ...