Differences between Excel's Form Controls & ActiveX Controls
There is [eternal] confusion surrounding the two types of controls available to Excel — exacerbated by the contrasting terminology used by different online sources. This is only a …
excel - Are ActiveX Controls Disabled? - Stack Overflow
Mar 10, 2023 · I have Excel worksheets that use ActiveX checkboxes to control certain activity. Today they started to give errors. I was alerted to this by a colleague who was running a later …
excel - How to add Calendar, Date-Picker? - Stack Overflow
WORKSHEET (ActiveX) In Developer tab, Controls group, click Insert, then bottom right button for More Controls. Scroll down and select Microsoft Date and Time Picker Control 6.0 (SP6) or …
activex - Excel Active-X button cannot be clicked - Stack Overflow
May 22, 2019 · I have also tried several other active-x controls and they all do the same thing - label, checkbox, dropdown list, etc... Any help with the active-x controls would be greatly …
excel - Why are ActiveX controls on the Insert menu of the …
Jun 2, 2016 · From some researching it seems this cannot be done with a "Forms Control", I must use an ActiveX version of the combobox. That's all fine, except on the Insert menu of the …
How to check if Excel sheet contains activeX control?
Nov 16, 2015 · 2 To expand on Rory's answer, in addition to fully qualifying your objects, you can check if an ActiveX-control of a given name exists on a worksheet by using this function:
security - "Cannot insert object" error when adding ActiveX control ...
First of all, Microsoft states that Not all ActiveX controls can be used directly on worksheets; some can be used only on Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) UserForms. When you work …
excel - ActiveX will be disabled by default in Microsoft Office 2024 ...
Sep 12, 2024 · 0 Microsoft announced in September 2024: Starting in new Office 2024, the default configuration setting for ActiveX objects will change from Prompt me before enabling …
Excel: the Incredible Shrinking and Expanding Controls
Microsoft Excel Support Team Blog: ActiveX and form controls resize themselves when clicked or doing a print preview (in Excel 2010) (This might not help for users of Excel 2013 sorry) EDIT: …
vba - What is the difference between "Form Controls" and "ActiveX ...
Using Microsoft Excel 2010, I noticed two kind of controls that can be inserted into a document: Form Controls and ActiveX Controls. What is the difference between them?