Back when I was doing tech support for Maximizer, I remember talking to countless people who didn’t know that much about Maximizer (and computers in general). Sometimes, I found that the easiest way to get people thinking about Maximizer stuff was to relate it to Excel.
Will: “Click on the Address Book Window.”
Customer: “Which window?”
Will: “The Address Book Window. The one with all your information on it”
Customer: “I don’t see it.”
Will: “The Address Book Window. The one that kinda looks like an excel spreadsheet.”
Customer: “Oh! I found it!”
I find that people have a strange love affair with Excel. Maybe it’s become engrained in people’s mind that anything that is organized in any sort of a grid or table is like Excel. It’s just like how people call all sorts of chicken balls, “McNuggets”, or flying discs, “Frisbees”.
People use Excel for anything and everything. Traditionally, Excel is supposed to be used as spreadsheet software that makes it easy for you to add and graph things, although I’ve seen many people use it for things that it probably has no business being used for.
Maximizer makes it easy throw the list contained in any controlling window into an Excel spreadsheet. With this information in an Excel spreadsheet, you can generate pivot tables, graphs, or anything else that you want.
- Create a column view with all of the information that you want to put into your spread sheet.
- Do a search for whatever you want to export. You can also do an all
entries or a very broad search and individually select individual items
you want to export. If you don’t select anything, then it will just
export whatever is on the screen.
- Click the Export to excel button (
).
Yes, it is that easy.