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Browsing the Internet with MS Word

One of the computers in the student center was infected by virus/malware/whatever making both Firefox and Internet Explorer completely useless. I was really frustrated at that time because I was about to read Naruto manga online. Yes I’m a big fan of Naruto (only for manga the anime sucks bad). I don’t have time clean/fix anything. Plus, if I fix it up, it’s just a matter of time to be infected again. So I wrote a few line of VB code in Microsoft Word to use it as my web browser. So this is how it’s done:

1)Enable Visual Basic toolbar in Ms Word
View>Toolbars>Visual Basic

2)Click on the Visual Basic Editor icon to launch the VB workspace

3)Insert a form
Insert>UserForm

4)Add the Internet Explorer activeX
Tools>Additional Controls>Scroll down until you find Microsoft Web Browser>Tick>OK
You should get an earth icon in your Controls toolbox

5)Click on the earth icon and draw it on the form. Draw a textbox and a command button too.

6)Press F7 to open the code section and insert these lines:

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
WebBrowser1.Navigate TextBox1.Text
End Sub

7)Press F5 and happy browsing!

8)You can add more function using these syntax:

WebBrowser1.GoBack
WebBrowser1.GoForward
WebBrowser1.Stop

Few days later I found an easier way to counter this problem;using the Windows Calculator!
run>calc
Help>Help Topics
Right click on the title bar>Jump to URL
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