EXCELSAVE: Stata module to provide a convenient way to export matched Stata datasets from a specified input directory (also including, if wanted, additionally recursively matched subsets of files within distinctly matched offspring-directories) to Excel-files

excelsave provides a convenient way to export matched Stata datasets from a specified input directory (also including, if wanted, additionally recursively matched subsets of files within distinctly matched offspring-directories) to Excel-files.The achieved generality is governed by the options that implements e.g. the choice of folder, and a filename matching criterion to apply within this folder; moreover a distinct matching criterion for which subdirectories to similarly, recursively, search through may be stated. If wanted, only a matched subset of variables will be exported for all matched files. Moreover, one may also select whether the output Excel-files should be created in .xls or .xlsx format (the latter serves as the default). Further, it works as a full wrapper of –export excel- and hence all options defined with respect to that command may be used here as well. Typical use could e.g. be to export a certain large set of files located within a specific directory-structure to Excel before sharing them with co-workers. All matchings are case-sensitive. All options are optional and corresponding defaults exists.