Hello Jana
Re ODBC, Excel does support ODBC, usually with no trouble. You need to do a few things:
One time only:
1. Creat/Define your ODBC connection. (See Sesame instructions to do this).
2. Need to have availablity to the source database (Start Sesame Server to connect to a Sesame database).
3. Open Excel, click on Data, Get External data, New Database Query.
4. Choose Data Source (Can select Sesame or other source). Make the query and save it as filename.dqy(dynamic query).
Make as many queries as you need to use in the future.
Future use.
1. Be sure you have access to source database (Sesame Server is on).
2. Open Excel, File, Open, change the type to Query(*.dqy), and select the query that you want to use.
Here is a snapshot of an ODBC connection I just made with Sesame\Data\Samples\Customers database in Excel 2000, showing all 378 records, sorted by Key.