How to Export Salesforce List View to Excel?

Published: Mar 12 2024

Last Updated: May 06 2026

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Salesforce List Views are widely used by admins and users to organize, filter, and analyze records. But a common question comes up again and again:

Can you export Salesforce List Views to Excel, especially multiple List Views at once?

With Salesforce’s standard functionality, the answer is unfortunately NO. Salesforce does not provide a native option to export List Views to Excel. Admins are forced to open each List View individually and manually copy or extract data, which quickly becomes time-consuming and inefficient, particularly when dealing with large datasets or frequent reporting requests.

This is where automation makes a real difference.

Using our Salesforce AppExchange solution, Bulk Object Field Creator (BOFC), admins can export multiple List Views to Excel (XLSX or CSV) within few clicks. Eliminates repetitive manual effort, saves valuable time, and simplifies data extraction for reporting, audits, and offline analysis.

 
Note:

To avail this feature, kindly make sure you have installed the latest version of the application. You can upgrade your package using either of two ways:

  1. In Salesforce, go to “BOFC Home > Settings > App Version > Click to Upgrade” — or —
  2. Refer the below button to quickly upgrade your package to the latest version and explore its complete benefits:

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Guide to Export List View in Salesforce to Excel

1. Open the BOFC Home > Click “Export List Views”
 

2. It will open below screen to export list views. Select the type of operation as “Export multiple list views” option in radio button.

 
3. Select single or multiple objects. Once ready, click “Fetch List View(s)” button to initiate the process to fetch all the existing list views of selected objects.
 
4. Select the single or multiple ListViews. Once ready, click on “Export List Views” button to initiate the process.
 
5. Once the “Export ListView(s)” buttons is clicked, it will download the excel with all the information for the selected list views.

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