close IE even after user clicks links on original page

"open IE based on a link put in cell A1"... but the code is looping through A1:A5. Do all those cells contain valid URLs?

What is the On Error for? Which error are you trying to catch with it? Try commenting it out.

Your code works for me, but it only closes the IE window outside the loop, after all 5 cells have been navigated to. I can click links in each URL web page without affecting the navigation done by the code.