Launch Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic Express. Open the project file in which you want to create a module and command button that creates an Excel spreadsheet from selected data.

The more savvy Visual Basic users fire it up to write saleable software and to turn out Visual Basic programming at work that lets them hold down decently paying jobs on the corporate scene.

Fortunately, you can convert Excel files to plain text files, which can then be imported into almost any spreadsheet program, such as Intuit's QuickBooks accounting software.