Cannot insert object, ActiveX control does not not work anymore

Good morning guys,

I,m facing with a strange issue, yesterday (until yesterday all of them worked without any troubles)one of my colleague called me from office and told me that our excel files did not work properly anymore.
The files have commandbuttons (activex control) in sheet and are disable, cannot do anything with them. When I open (one of them) the file in workbook-open I have some commandbuttons hidden and when the user completes some textboxes in UserForm some commandbuttons (activex control) should apper but they did not. I tried to see what caused it but I have had no idea. Moreover, I try to create a test file adding an activex control -commandbutton and the message is "Cannot insert object".
Please tell me what should I do to solve this issue...I really appreciate your help.
I use win7 at home and at office also, I did not do any "update" or something similar, I did not do anything.

There is a problem with the latest Office update.

The interwebs is buzzing with posts about it. Bottom line:

Close all Office applications, do a system wide search for *.exd and delete all that you find. Reboot. Hope.

See here: http://excelmatters.com/2014/12/10/o...ivex-controls/

or here: http://dailydoseofexcel.com/archives...ivex-controls/

or here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/285...root-cert.html

Hi Teylyn,
Wow! Excellent advice! Thank you very much for your help!
I tried it and it seems to be ok. the files from my laptop work fine after I deleted the .exd files. Hope to be ok with the files ffrom our office.



Best Regards,
George

Phixer,
try this way
Note: if you are having problems locating the .exd files, you can press Win+R to open the Run box, enter %temp% and press Enter. That should open explorer to the Temp folder and you then need to look in the Excel8.0 and VBE folders for the .exd files. (if your issue is with a program other than Excel, look for the folder related to that application – e.g. Word8.0)

Here is the official MS post on the Excel blog:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_micro...-updates-.aspx

They've changed the post title once already and links to the first version broke. In case they decide to change the post title again, here is the blog landing page.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_micro...ort_team_blog/

cheers, teylyn

Hi Teylyn

I followed the same "procedure" at office and all our excel files work as expected!
Thanks a lot for this help!

cheers