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    VB or Macro? Advice on best route to creating web search data returns

    I am trying to use a macro to return further registration information from http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/find-a-...search#formtop to enable me to add data points to a database of current UK lawyers.

    There appear to be a few ways to do so and I would like to know your thoughts on which will be most fruitful - 1) record a macro - import complete webpage and then select relevant data; copy and paste into table. 2) inspect the element of the search on the webpage and go direct to the information stored in the coding; this is then returned straight into excel with no import required (I've seen this done on a youtube clip and appears to be the slickest way) - this requires VB coding and not macros - so I have struggled thus far. 3) AN Other way - any ideas?

    In essence, I have a list of forenames and surnames and I would like to use excel to match these up to company and searchable databases on the internet, to dramatically expand my database. I am searching around 100k names so this is an enormous time saver.

    Happy to post further details on the project if it helps

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    Harry

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    Re: VB or Macro? Advice on best route to creating web search data returns

    Morning, are you still looking at this?

    Can you post a sample of what you want the data to look like once returned and the structure of the data you already have?

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