Starting this month, the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio in Microsoft 365 will disable all ActiveX content by default without showing a notification. The Mac and ...

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 is set to disable ActiveX controls by default in its upcoming Office 2024 suite. This change will impact Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio applications.

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

Alarmed by a wave of vulnerabilities that have turned up in plug-in technology used by the Internet Explorer browser, security experts are urging Web surfers to disable ActiveX controls.