Another Applescript with Excel Question

Hey Everyone,
I am making an attempt to write a script for excel. I need the script to do these things:
Open an excel workbook file from a dialog
Give me an option to enter a name to search for within that document
search column D of that document for the name entered
each time it finds the name in that column, copy that whole row
copy all of the rows it finds to a new excel workbook
I have figured out the really basic things(open the file, display the dialog to enter the name in, etc.) I just am not sure how to tell it to search only column D and how to copy the whole row of each entry it finds.
Any help offered, I will appreciate!

MacTech magazine has a tutorial for using Applescript with Office 2008.
Here is the best I can come up for it. The links to MacTech no longer work. I'm not sure if you can find a way to get to it any more:
http://gigaom.com/apple/mactech-offers-free-scripting-book-for-office-2008/
And yes, they are much like macros, without the possibility of malware being embedded.

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