Form Control objects are self-contained within Excel, while ActiveX Control objects use Visual Basic for Applications for formatting and scripting.

Earlier this week we learned of a Flash vulnerability being exploited in the wild by loading it through ActiveX in Microsoft Excel. The real news--the Flash vulnerability--was almost overshadowed by ...

Using Excel to create business forms means including elements available on your Web-based and paper forms, including check boxes. Like other Excel form elements, check boxes appear on the drawing ...

ActiveX can now be considered an outdated technology of Microsoft. With Office 2024, ActiveX controls in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio will be disabled by default without any warning to users.

KB 3008923 crashes IE, KB 3002339 still hanging on install, KB 2986475 still pulled -- but there's a small silver lining Overnight, Microsoft pulled two high-profile screwed-up patches: KB 3011970 and ...

Add custom control to it that houses the twinBASIC ActiveX control. Add code to the Load event of Access form to initialize the ActiveX control. This can be just simply setting a property of the ...

I am using Open XML SDK in one of the projects I am currently working on to create Excel file that would need to have Check boxes(Form Controls not ActiveX controls ...