One or more activex controls could not be displayed in Outlook

2008-03-28 at 10:32 pm databasemind

Windows XP SP, Outlook 2003

User was getting error message “One or more activex controls could not be displayed…”.

It is 2 ways to resolve this issue.

1) Check checkbox for “Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit messages” in Outlook’s Tool >> Options >> Mail Format

2)If you don’t want to use Word.

Go to

C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

Make sure you make a copy of the *.htm signature.

Open htm signature in notepad.

Search for tag <object>.

Delete everything between <object></object> tags, including tags.

Save document. The problem is solved.

Additional resources:

Microsoft Outlook 2003
Microsoft Outlook 2007



One Response to “One or more activex controls could not be displayed in Outlook”

  1. Exactly what I needed it to do! Excellent!

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