RE: Excel or Spreadsheet

["Stephen Arrants" <steve -at- microbrightfield -dot- com>]

John Posada asks:
> Hi, guys...I have an application that has a menu button 
> labeled Export. When clicked, you are given two choices; 
> Excel and Text.
> 
> My issue is that we call it out by the application Excel, 
> when in reality, we're simply creating a file with an Excel 
> extension and whatever spreadsheet application they are using 
> that recognizes that extension is launched.
> 
> My question...are there enough non-Excel users out there to 
> make the effort of changing our application to use the 
> choices Spreadsheet and Text?
> 
> Our targeted audience is Fortune 500 type of organizations.

My guess is that the audience will know what the buttons mean. 

If you want to be correct, though, I'd change the text of the buttons to
read 
"Microsoft Office Excel Workbook (*.xls) or Text (*.txt)" or even 
"MS Excel (*.xls) or Text (*.txt)" Also -- is the text format comma- or
tab-delimited? 
Your user might want to know that before saving, too. 


Cheers
Steve arrants

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