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Using Chrome browser instead of InternetExplorer.Application


Google Chrome does not provide a Visual Basic interface like Internet Explorer does, so you cannot access any of it's properties (e.g. Document). You can launch chrome at a specific address just by passing to the executable.

For example:

Dim path As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles)Dim executable As String = Path.Combine(path, "Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe")Process.Start(executable, "http://google.com")


There's an excellent resource library called Selenium that has VBA Wrappers. There's a very basic tutorial here, though if you really want to get anything done the best starting point is the example spreadsheet hosted here.


Sub test544()  Dim chromePath As String  chromePath = """C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"""  Shell (chromePath & " -url http:google.ca")End Sub