Preferably, NOT just as excel, even though many apps will import excel and convert it to other formats. I don't know what format the VCP/Shark data are in internally, but I would imagine it can be exported to xls, csv, tab delimited, dbf, 1-2-3, or even calc (openoffice.org) IFFFFF Tim and crew want it to. I tend to find that xls (as with word) can be hoggingly bloated stuf to have data in.

Neutrality or .dbf as well as 3 flavors of spreadsheets, please. For those of us who maximize use of databases over spreadsheets, we find databases (regard) to offer the advantage of managing data over crunching numbers. When we construct reports and queries, it is quite crucial for us to keep data and the app separate (the sheet/forms/tables separate from the actual values put in) to avoid wrecking date by act of deleting a column or the like.

Actually, if VCP/Shark offer export filters/options for odbc, .dbf, xls, and open office.org, at a minimum, fairness, flexibility, and portability can be carried on for several years to over a decade wthout worrying about what excel won't support 3 years on.