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Default Can Excel VBA search for and read URL

this seemed to work when I recorded changing the original screen. I'm US so
don't understand UK postcodes.
Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 7/20/2007 by Donald B. Guillett
'

'
Range("A5").Select
With Selection.QueryTable
.Connection = _
"URL;http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=3&c="
& Cells(3, 1) & "&i=1001&m=0&enc=1&areaSearchText=" & Cells(3, 1) &
"&areaSearchType=13&extendedList=false&searchAreas =Search"
.WebSelectionType = xlEntirePage
.WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingRTF
.WebPreFormattedTextToColumns = True
.WebConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne = True
.WebSingleBlockTextImport = False
.WebDisableDateRecognition = False
.WebDisableRedirections = False
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
End Sub


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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
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"Dirk Nachbar" wrote in message
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I want Excel to import data from the website
http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/ for given
postcodes, unfortunately it only works if you physically type in the
postcode on the web, as putting the postcode into the PHP style URL
doesn't work. Is Excel able to do that?

Basically I want something like this
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
"URL;http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/
LeadKeyFigures.do?a=3&b=5939933&c=" & Cells(i, 17) &
"&d=14&e=16&g=409939&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&enc= 1"


Dirk