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

In Office 2007 and 2010 you can turn off all ActiveX controls. Things are a little trickier in Office 2003.

A group of security experts publishes a report filled with tips on how individuals and organizations can reduce security risks in Microsoft's Internet Explorer when using ActiveX controls.

It's been quiet for a while, but ActiveX is still around. Upcoming Microsoft Office versions will finally switch off support. At least almost.

Click the Office button, choose PowerPoint Options > Popular and enable the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon checkbox and click OK. The Developer tab provides access to the ActiveX controls central to ...

By disabling Active Scripting and ActiveX controls on your computer, you may give up a little functionality--but you'll gain a lot more security. Let's look at how you can disable both.

The good news for users who use the latest version of Microsoft Office is that Access 2007 is not affected: the vulnerability is only present in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewers for ...

Three of the critical vulnerabilities Microsoft patched Tuesday in ActiveX controls for Office were first reported to the company two years ago, according to the security firm that alerted ...

This month's ActiveX flaw project has uncovered a potentially dangerous code execution hole in an ActiveX module in Microsoft Office 2000.