[Yr7-10it] RE: Visual Basic and Excel Macros

[Costello, Rob R]

Hi Jenna 

There's a lot on the web for this but majority is possibly a bit beyond
the initial stage 

I have an idea - I'll try to do a quick screen cast in next day or two
of using Excel to work like a basic "web bot" - get it to automatically
download the content of a web page the user chooses, collate the list of
hyperlinks off the page, search for the links that contain certain
words, and then open a browser to follow the ones it finds - all in one
go    

Is that the sort of idea you could maybe use? 
I've done similar before and not very hard to do with the features in
excel 
  
Still - depends a bit on what you want the kids to get out of it  -
macros can be as broad as your ideas really - copy files around, access
web, process data etc 

cheers 

Rob 
 
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> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:13:33 +1030
> From: Jenna Hubbard <jenna.hubbard at hotmail.com>
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> Hi all,
> 
> Can anyone send to the list introductory lessons on Visual Basic and
Excel
> Macros or have any suggestions on where to start?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jenna
> 
> 

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