thank you for the comprehensive reply. shall try it and post back

Brian Delaney wrote in message
...
Hi RV,

If I read this correctly, you're trying to do something I just figured out
(and with your help, by the way, from past posts).

' Open Internet Explorer application

Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

With ie

.Visible = True

' Go to login page

.Navigate "http(etc)"

' Loop until the page is fully loaded

Do Until .ReadyState = 4

DoEvents

Loop

' Make the desired selections on the web page and click the submit Button

Set ipf = ie.Document.all.Item("login")

ipf.Value = "your username"

Set ipf = ie.Document.all.Item("passwd")

ipf.Value = "your password"

Set ipf = ie.Document.all.Item("login_form")

ipf.submit

' Loop while web site homepage loads

Do Until ie.Document.URLUnencoded = "http(etc)"

DoEvents

Loop

End With



I interpreted the Item names from the login web page HTML code (using
ViewSource). For some pages, I've had to replace "ipf.submit" with
"ipf.click". I also had trouble with getting loops to work while the web
pages loaded. In the above case, assigning the procedure to wait for the
post-login page to load worked. Otherwise I've generally been using

Application.Wait Now + TimeValue("00:00:05")

setting the time allowed according to how quickly pages for a given site
usually load. I had 3 sites in particular I wanted to use this on and it's
now been working without fail for a couple weeks.

Good luck,

Brian



"R.VENKATARAMAN" wrote in message
...
I searched the googles groups to get some insight into this. But I could
not get exactly what I want.
I know some experts do not recomment using <sendkeys

however I want to get data from a webpage into excel . It is is not
simple
using <new web query. In the webpage I have to click one of the two
option(or are they checkboxes?) boxes and then enter a text in the small
window. finally I have to click something like a command button <submit

I do have some codes wherein you have to simply enter the user id and
password in the code and run it. .
The EXTRACT ONLY of the sub is
While appIE.busy
DoEvents
Wend
appIE.navigate "https://access.leggmason.com/"
While appIE.ReadyState < READYSTATE_COMPLETE
DoEvents
Wend
SendKeys "excel", True '----------this is user id
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "hello", True '------------this is password
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True

Of course this code also gives problem at READYSTATE_COMPLETE but I
used
a
variant dim for this.
it works in some cases but it does not work in some other cases where
due
to security reason the webpage asks again for the password(example-yahoo
mail). I tried to modify the same code in the mouse clicking case
also.
B
ut I am stumped as I could not find the keyboard short cut for clicking
the
mouse. In the case of <submit button i presume that I can use <enter
key.

It is obvious I have not understood fully the sub

Highly thankful for any suggestion how to go about . I am fairly
familiar
with excel and VBA.
mine excel 2000/windows 98 SE
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http://www.bseindia.com/histdata/stockprc.asp

regarads