Ad Hoc Reporting export to excel

This feature does not work.  I've tried three different browsers.  Each one succeeds in opening excel but no data is being pulled.  I'd like to pull my list of the 810s that went out each day to perform a simple vlookup to compare to my accounting system but this appears to be impossible.  If I could highlight and copy the data from the browser to excel would even be acceptable but that's impossible too.  It really seems like SPS favors form over function.  Everyone in my office has issues with all the java updates and the site still not popping up webforms.  It may be pretty, but it's functionally pretty bad.