Thanks Gregory,

but prefixing with that line did not work...

regards

thomas

>I am making html files - which I open with IE8. Each time I open the file, I get an annoying popup.
>
>Solution below works for me - dunno about your problem
>
>
>If security is a problem, add the following to the top of the html
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>

><!-- saved from url=(0011)about:blank -->
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628(v=VS.85).aspx
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>>Hi Tracy,
>>
>>doing this also again. One of the things I am running against seems to be security -
>>on W7 with IE9 loIE errors out early, my guess being because the HTML tries to script on the side.
>>
>>Quick band aid was to climb a ladder and get out old laptop with W2K and IE6 from storage -
>>code worked without a problem there. Have you any tips on woe to set loIE on more current machines/versions ?
>>Dunno how long that laptop will last - battery already totally dead ;-)
>>
>>thx
>>
>>thomas
>>
>>>>>and the same for IE to parse HTML. If not, is there anyway to pass a variable or variable contents to IE.Navigate intead of URL or file name?
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>loIE   = CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
>>>>>loIE.Navigate(m.myHTMLText)
>>>>>DO WHILE loIE.Busy OR loIE.ReadyState <> 4
>>>>>	DOEVENTS
>>>>>ENDDO
>>>>>m.PlainText2 = loIE.Document.documentElement.innertext
>>>>>?m.PlainText2
>>>>>