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.

Launch Excel and click the "Developer" tab above the ribbon menu; then click the "Visual Basic" button. Type "Sub ConvertToText()" (without quotation marks) into the code pane.

3] Now, close the Microsoft Visual Basic window and save your Excel file in Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook format. To select this format, click on the drop-down menu in the Save or Save As window.