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In this post, we show you how to change color of ActiveX Control buttons in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint programs.
After Office 2024 launches in October, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio client apps.
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.
The precedent is set, as Microsoft killed a Yahoo ActiveX control with its last round of updates.
The Microsoft 365 Admin Center recently published a warning that developers would soon disable ActiveX controls in Office applications by default. The change will affect Word, Excel, PowerPoint ...
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 ...
Windows administrators are going to be busy next week as Microsoft releases a dozen security patches for its products, including Word and ActiveX.
Microsoft has issued a pre-patch security advisory to warn about "active, targeted attacks" against an ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access.
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 ...
Microsoft is investigating reports of a vulnerability in a Windows ActiveX control that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a computer, according to an advisory issued Friday.
Microsoft is investigating reports of a vulnerability in a Windows ActiveX control that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a computer.