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

In this post, we show you how to change color of ActiveX Control buttons in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint programs.

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

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 ...

From April 2025, Microsoft will disable all controls without notification by default across Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Visio.