title: Excel 2003: Active-X bug from Dec 2014 "update" -- still broke. What else to try?
body: <p>Situation: big huge Excel VBA project, running in <strong>Excel 2003</strong>.  Tons of code, been running for years.  The December 2014 update from Microsoft that broke Active-X controls for everybody, just got installed on my machine, and hey, it broke for me too.  Okay, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27411399/microsoft-excel-activex-controls-disabled">StackOverflow to the rescue</a>, found the solution, and deleted the .EXD files.  Reboot.</p>
  
  <p>Small problem: no help.</p>
  
  <p>Partial workaround: I put "buttons" (not "command buttons" -- which are Active-X controls) on the worksheet, and I can start things running with those.  Problem: when the VBA code goes to change a cell on the worksheet, it gets an Application Error, as if it isn't allowed to do so.  Because this code has run for years &amp; years, I'm pretty certain that it's the December update bug that's killing me here.  Plus, the Active-X buttons still do nothing.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question: what other steps beyond deleting the .EXD files &amp; rebooting, specific to Excel 2003, need to be taken?</strong>  ("Remove all VBA code, save, and restore the code" is a non-starter; far, far too much code to contemplate that, and how much I'd likely break along the way.)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help!</p>