How to navigate to an already opened internet explorer window? (VBA)

Question

so I\'ve been searching around the web a lot on how to do this and can\'t seem to find any concrete information on this. I\'ve seen a lot of examples on how to open a new intern

Answer 1

I try to check your description and I find that you want to get object of already opened IE window and than try to automate it.

You can try to refer example below may help you.

In this example, You can see that already opened page get searched using it's title. Than you can use it's object to automate that page.

Sub demo()

Dim str_val As Object
marker = 0
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
IE_count = objShell.Windows.Count
For x = 0 To (IE_count - 1)
    On Error Resume Next
    my_url = objShell.Windows(x).document.Location
    my_title = objShell.Windows(x).document.Title

    If my_title Like "XYZ" & "*" Then
        Set IE = objShell.Windows(x)
        marker = 1
        Exit For
    Else
    End If
Next

If marker = 0 Then
 MsgBox ("A matching webpage was NOT found")

Else
    MsgBox ("A matching webpage was found")

    Set str_val = IE.document.getElementById("txtbox1")
    str_val.Value = "demo text"

End If
End Sub

Output:

Reference:

VBA code to interact with specific IE window that is already open

Answer 2

This does all browser windows both Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer

Window is a Internet Explorer Window object.

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set AllWindows = objShell.Windows
For Each window in AllWindows
    msgbox window.location
Next

Or if you are sure it's the only one open

Set x = GetObject(,"InternetExplorer.Application")