Sorry Martin, it seems that I didn't manage to help you after all -
I've been automating ie only for last couple of months myself and so
i've run out of suggestions.
The only last bit up my sleeve - I've had it myself when IE was always
creating a new instance whenever i .navigate to a specific URL,
meaning - when the code runs and creates the IE object, makes it
visible - i've got 1 IE window on my screen but then I .navigate the
the site i needed and that IE was (for some reason) creating new
window for that site and obviously my code wasn't controlling the new
window (but only the old) and therefore code couldn't find the
elements i wanted it to change (as the old window didn't pull the web
site - the new did). It was IE7 - so what I ended up doing was
installed IE8 and it did the trick (it stopped creating the new
windows).
There is a method to catch the .newwindow or something like that in
the shdoc - you can try googling for it.
So, this seems to be the last thing i had that could be it (i.e.,
maybe your ie also was creating another window) but if not - i'm
afraid you'll need to open up another thread or ask someone else.
I hope you make it work!

A.


On Mar 27, 11:25*pm, MartinL
wrote:
Tried this at home, it works perfectly!!!!! why doesn't it work at work??