Another patch, KB 2553154, is killing some Excel 2010 and 2013 macros, saying the ActiveX control “has stopped working in Excel.” ...

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.

The bug is in the ActiveX control that displays Excel spreadsheets within IE, Microsoft said. The timing of the disclosure was particularly awkward for Microsoft.

I am writing an app that exports data to excel. It reads existing text files and parses them into columns , which is then made into a CSV file and using an activeX interface, loaded into Excel and ...

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