title: How to navigate to an already opened internet explorer window? (VBA)
body: <p>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 internet explorer window and navigate to a specific website. However, in my particular case, I want to be able to simply navigate to an already opened internet explorer window (it would be the only window/tab open of internet explorer). The reason for this is because every time I open the website, I need to log in before being able to do anything. I would then ideally like to paste some ID's into a search box and press enter (I should be able to find out how to do this part through searching online). </p>
  
  <p>Here is what I've found so far, but I'm a little lost and not sure how I would apply this bit of code to work as I would like it to.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Sub ExplorerTest()
  
  
  
  Const myPageTitle As String = "Wikipedia"
  Const myPageURL As String = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"
  Const mySearchForm As String = "searchform"
  Const mySearchInput As String = "searchInput"
  Const mySearchTerm As String = "Document Object Model"
  Const myButton As String = "Go"
  Dim myIE As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
  
  
  With myIE.Document.forms(mySearchForm)
      'enter search term in text field
      .elements(mySearchInput).Value = mySearchTerm
      'press button "Go"
      .elements(myButton).Click
    End With
  
  End Sub
  </code></pre>