Question

The problem i am facing is that I have a spreadsheet that pulls data from an intranet site that stores credentials in a cookie on the browser. My macro does authenticate into the site via internet explorer, but the hyperlinks i add to the data that lead back to the site will open in the default browser of the user. Is there a way to change which browser the Hyperlinks method will open, or is there a way to forward the request directly to the default browser of the user without going through Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery? Hyperlinks in Outlook open directly to the default browser, is there a reason excel does not? Or is there a way to somehow grab that cookie and send it with the request? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you change your links to point back to the cell which contains them, you can trap the FollowHyperlink event (at the worksheet or workbook level) and use that to open the link in IE. Assuming you can put the full link as “Text to display”.

Private Sub Worksheet_FollowHyperlink(ByVal Target As Hyperlink)
    Dim url As String
    url = Target.TextToDisplay
    'automate IE to open the link...
End Sub