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Default Crossing Applications - Possible?

Hello, all.

I have a worksheet which has about 5300 rows containing information about
various products.

One of the columns contains hyperlinks for each product which link to an
inTERnet website giving more detail about each product.

I would like to know if it is possible to write a program which will go down
the worsheet row-by-row, open the hyperlink, copy the contents of the web
page into a WORD document, save the word document to a local file folder
(naming it as one of the other columns in the worksheet), close the word
document and then go to the next row and repeat (5300 times). Each word
document will be 3-4 pages long.

This program will involve crossing between Excel, Internet Explorer and
Word.

I'm pretty good with Excel VBA, but have never tried anything like this
before. I would like to know if any of you think it can be done, and if so,
how difficult would something like this be to pull off. Thoughts/opinions
(and hints!) would be appreciated.

Thanks,
MARTY