Active X Controls

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Cindy M -WordMVP-

Hi Carolyn,
What are Active X Controls, and how are they removed?
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ActiveX controls are little applications that have been
created by, for example, VB or C++. They can be inserted
into other applications to provide additional
functionality.

Microsoft Office provides controls that can be used to
create forms such as textboxes, comboboxes, checkboxes,
radio buttons. These are the same controls provided for
UserForms (dialog boxes you can make in VBA). They can be
inserted from the Controls Toolbox toolbar.

In order to delete an activeX control from a document you
need to display this toolbar and click on the "Design Mode"
button. Now you can click on the control, then press
Delete.

Note, however, that the VB-portion of the ActiveX control
will still be registered in the document. Even if you
delete all macros and all ActiveX controls from a document,
the document will still trigger macro security. In order to
remove this, you need to copy/paste the text - without the
last paragraph mark - to a new document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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