This sounds hilariously n00by because it's VB and Internet Explorer, but creating an Internet Explorer instance through VB in, say, Excel and then dumping data

This sounds hilariously n00by because it's VB and Internet Explorer, but creating an Internet Explorer instance through VB in, say, Excel and then dumping data into Excel was great because I had full control over my IE instance. Okay, I'll stop speaking now and revealing the fact I started my career as a data guy at a giant corporation instead of a software engineer.