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    Excel Web Link

    Please can anyone help, I need to do the following:

    Run a macro on large list of URL's on excel to copy them from excel and paste it into IExplorer and then copy the resultant URL back into the list.

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    Re: Excel Web Link

    That I am aware you can't quite do it directly. Excel does have a feature to import from the web under the data tab.

    If it is something you want to automate, there is an addon to firefox/IE that can do it, I do something similar in my work. The addon is called iMacros and it can extract data from a web page to a text file, and also fill forms from a text file. Excel can also communicate with the text file. There's a paid version of iMacros that can do it more easily and more directly, but using a text file as an intermediary between the programs allows you to do it with the free version.

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    Re: Excel Web Link

    Welcome to the forums jasonbecks.

    Yes it is possible to achieve what you want from VBA using the webbrowser control.

    Place a webbrowser control in a userform. Then use .Navigate <url> method to navigate to that link. Once webbrowser loads, simply retrieve the url from the webbrowser Address bar.

    Give it a try and if you get stuck then simply post the code that you tried and the error that you are getting. We will then take it from there.
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    Re: Excel Web Link

    Thanks for the help, but at moment i am really not getting too far.

    possibly u can provide more of a walthru?

    i have in cell A1
    http://www.yahoo.com/movies
    if i copy that cell to IE URL r if i hyperlink that A1: i get back
    http://movies.yahoo.com/
    which I want in C1


    for a range A1:A5000

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    Re: Excel Web Link

    Do you know how to create a userform and place a webbrowser on it?
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    Re: Excel Web Link

    i got that far. but really no idea how to integrate it all

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    Re: Excel Web Link

    I have built a userform with the webbrowser but not sure of coding to integrate it use the webrbowser

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