Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century's tech Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a ...

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.

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

However, any web-based documents should use the newer controls and not ActiveX. Internet Explorer will probably be retired in 2022, and currently, Edge doesn’t support ActiveX.

Windows administrators are going to be busy next week as Microsoft releases a dozen security patches for its products, including Word and ActiveX.

Microsoft also plans to finalize changes to the way IE processes dynamic content using ActiveX. Microsoft is changing the way IE works in response to a 2003 patent lawsuit loss to the University ...

It’s a lot easier to create custom forms in Word than it used to be. This article covers six Content Controls, pre-programmed tools for adding and customizing interactive content in your Word ...