Activating A window with variable titles

[stolie]

Hi All

I have encountered a problem where the title of the Internet Explorer window i need to activate keeps changing for everyscreen. Only the last 3 words are the same ie: Microsoft Internet Explorer

1/ Is there a wildcard i can use to encompass the first series of words?

2/ I have been reading about the function -->Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) but i cant seem to figure out how to use it. Anyone have an example script that explains its use is in simple terms.

3/. I have tried the following within the script;

$title= WinGetTitle ("")

WinActivate($title)

But it seems as though the window needs to be active first for it to grab the title, am i correct?

As a side question (and noobie one at that), once the $title is in memory, and another copy/paste function is used within the script, does the $title have to be reset?

Thanks in advance

[Zedna]

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ;1=start, 2=subStr, 3=exact, 4=...

WinActivate("Microsoft Internet Explorer")
$title = WinGetTitle("Microsoft Internet Explorer")
 MsgBox(0,'Whole title', $title)

[stolie]

You are a champ

Thanks so much