Hello world!

I'm BRAND spanking new here and to VBA for Word. I am fairly well versed in Excel VBA, but I have run into a situation where I need to automate something via Word and am looking for a little guidance.

I have a document that has a list of names. I need to create a new Word document for each of these names and save the file as that person's name, with only that person on it. So I need the macro to not only create and save the document with that person's name, I need it to delete every other name in the list...in short, 1 person on each document. Where would I begin here? Can this be accomplished in Word or am I going to need to figure out an Excel solution? (which would be pretty simple, but ultimately we'd like to have these documents in Word)