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.

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