Hi,

I'm trying to automate a web form-filling process by using Excel to control
IE, similar to the way discussed in the most helpful "Web Browser Question"
thread found he

http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...xp=&sloc=en-us

The website has 2 combo/dropdown boxes called "Name" and the 2nd called
"Type". In all cases, I would like to set the "Type" to 'Other'.

The problem is that the value of Type equating to 'Other' changes depending
on the value of Name. So for example, if Name.value="A" then the 'Other'
option for Type is set to "X". But if Name.value="B" then to choose 'Other'
we need Type.value="Y".

Having looked through the HTML source code, I have identified that this
assignment is done in a Name_onchange() event, fired when the *selection* of
Name is changed. Therefore, changing the value of Name in code using

IE.Document.All.Item("Name").Value="A"

unfortunately does not cause this event to fire, meaning that the 'Other'
option for Type will never have been set to "X", hence the line

IE.Document.All.Item("Type").Value="X"

will fail to set Type to 'Other'.


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So my question is: What line(s) of code do I need to have IE recognise that
the Name value has changed, therefore firing the the Name_onchange() event?
Would I need something like a Name.Select="A" (don't know the syntax so I
can't get this working...) to simulate a manual selection, or something else?
I would really appreciate any ideas and help!! Thanks very much in advance
everyone!