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What is an Active X?
What is an Active X?
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What is an Active X?
ActiveX is a programming interface modification that lets you spend lots of
time fiddling with details - unless you know how to use it, in which case it can be helpful. You need to learn computer programming to use it well, though. Basic suggestion - don't use ActiveX until you need to. Don't use it until you learn to program. Why are you asking? Version of Word? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Margueritta" wrote in message ... What is an Active X? |
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What is an Active X?
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:21:02 -0700, Margueritta
wrote: What is an Active X? It's a stupid name dreamed up by some marketing hack for a technology (formerly called OLE) that Microsoft probably now wishes it had never invented. The Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activex gives the geek version. In a nutshell, it's a method for making one program appear to run inside another program -- for example, you can have a piece of an Excel spreadsheet inside a Word document, or have a QuickTime movie play inside an Internet Explorer window. All of the items created by the Insert Object menu item use ActiveX, as do the objects on the Control Toolbox. The trouble is that security (or, more precisely, lack of security) was never considered when ActiveX was developed. The criminals and sociopaths known as "hackers" realized that ActiveX objects make life very easy for them -- you open some innocuous Word document containing an ActiveX link, and suddenly they have complete control of your computer. So far, the tools Microsoft has given for dealing with this problem in Word are almost worse than the problem itself. The recommendation is that you set your macro security level to High and trust only macros and objects that are digitally signed with a security certificate. Unfortunately, most of the objects that are available aren't signed, and security certificates for signing your own work are expensive. You can set the security level to Medium and Word will prompt you whether to enable the macros and objects in a document as you open it -- but that presumes you know whether they really can be trusted. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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What is an Active X?
What is an Active X?
Put the same words into Google and you get lots of helpful answers e.g. http://www.active-x.com/articles/whatis.htm -- Regards John Waller |
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