excel web queries: make the box for the website name much longer;
we need to be able to type in a webaddress that is long: the host name, the
cgi, the program name, password and userid, and a bunch of parameters for the
program. Excel says, when we try to edit our query, that the address is too
long to edit; please make it longer. i can save the .iqy and edit it that
way, but that's too hard for my end users. they need to be able to edit the
page name right in the box under Edit Query.
thanks.

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I would suggest that you record a macro while doing a simple change to the
typed in url and then modify the resulting url in the macro for variables in
your worksheet.
this one happened to be for Morningstar.com

"URL;http://yourwebsite.com/Stock/Income10.asp?Country=USA&Symbol=ibm&stocktab=finan ce"
"URL;http://" & [a1] &
".com/Stock/Income10.asp?Country=USA&Symbol=ibm&stocktab=finan ce"
where cell a1 would have had type in Morningstar.com

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"susannah" wrote in message
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excel web queries: make the box for the website name much longer;
we need to be able to type in a webaddress that is long: the host name,
the
cgi, the program name, password and userid, and a bunch of parameters for
the
program. Excel says, when we try to edit our query, that the address is
too
long to edit; please make it longer. i can save the .iqy and edit it that
way, but that's too hard for my end users. they need to be able to edit
the
page name right in the box under Edit Query.
thanks.

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