 To export data from LIME Survey to a spreadsheet, first open your survey, then choose Responses and Statistics from the Responses icon, then choose Export Results to Application. You will almost always want to export only the completed responses. The question codes will become the column headings for your spreadsheet, so this choice is what you want. Normally you don't want the full answers. For liquid scale items, that would give you the words Strongly Agree, Strongly Disagree, and so on. Instead, you usually want the answer codes, which will either be abbreviations for the words or numeric values. For the export format, choose CSV file. CSV stands for Comma Separated Values. This is a format that almost all spreadsheet and statistical programs can handle easily. Finally, click Export Data. You do not want to open the file directly from the resulting dialog. If you do, it opens the file in a temporary directory, which you will probably never ever be able to find again. Instead, you definitely want to save the files as some place where you know you can find it. For example, the My Documents folder.