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Trying to do something beyond my level w/ excel vba

I need help! I'm not sure what I am even doing is possible. I am trying to scrap data using excel from a work page. it feels like it shouldn't be hard what I am trying to do but I cant figure it out. very new to coding btw. from my understanding of I cant just insert the web page because the company is very serious about security. The only way I have got anywhere near the beginning blocks is by saving the page as an .htm page and dragging it to the excel sheet. problem is that page is updated every

27th Jun 2019, 6:21 AM
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day. I know that if it was that important I could just save it every day and upload it. problem is that I have much bigger plans and because of the security I am going to have to do everything off from that code. maybe there is an easier way and I am just over complicating it. the best code I have so far is something like this.
27th Jun 2019, 6:27 AM
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'This will load a webpage in IE     Dim i As Long     Dim Url As String     Dim ie As Object     Dim objElement As Object     Dim objCollection As Object     'Create InternetExplorer Object     Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")     'Set IE.Visible = True to make IE visible, or False for IE to run in the background     ie.Visible = False     'Define URL     Url = "work url I cant show"     'Navigate to URL     ie.Navigate Url     ' Statusbar let's user know website is loading     Application.StatusBar = Url & " is loading. Please wait..."     'Webpage Loaded     Application.StatusBar = Url & " Loaded"       'Unload IE     Set ie = Nothing     Set objElement = Nothing     Set objCollection = Nothing     Set UrldownloadToFile = Nothing
27th Jun 2019, 6:35 AM
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i pretty much just copy and pasted that. have tried tons of different things along the way. if I can create a macro that would save the whole page as an .htm file I would be golden from there. anyone got any ideas?
27th Jun 2019, 6:38 AM
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