Why don't you use FireFox or Maxthon. These have the feature you are
talking about. If you are worried about the address being displayed to
users, why don't you just hide the address bar in IE.
By the way, Don, I for one, do not understand how the solution posted
before can be a solution to the OP.
Sam Mathai Chacko
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:59 PM, dguillett1 <dguille...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I, for one, do not understand the question.
>
> Don Guillett
> SalesAid Software
> dguille...@gmail.com
>
> *From:* Philehof <phile...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2012 2:12 PM
> *To:* excel-macros@googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* $$Excel-Macros$$ internetexplorer.application add an alias to
> a link
>
> Hi Group
>
> With the below code, it is possible to jump to the link. How would it be
> possible to add an alias to url. Eg. instead of www.UN.com, then it would
> display *Homepage of the UN*.
>
> Option Explicit
> private Sub Workbook_Open()
>
> Dim ie As Object
> Dim url As String
> Set ie = CreateObject("internetexplorer.application")
> ie.Visible = True
> url = "http://www.un.com";
> ie.navigate url
>
> End Sub
>
> Greetings,
> Rune
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