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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

a Microsoft Windows operating system that enables various interactive applications like animation, audio, video, and virtual reality to be run inside Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office.

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 ...