I've got a gridview that when loaded in IE the user has the option to show all records (meaning paging is disabled) or show only 10 records (paging = true). If the user displays all records, they should be able to take advantage of the 'export to excel' feature in IE. Right click on gridview, select export-to-excel, and for some reason it only exports the first 10 records, not all of the 100+ records, why is that?

Hard to tell without seeing the code

it's just a normal gridview, nothing fancy. two buttons, one allowing paging (paging = true) one not allowing paging(paging=false)

Ok, well this just means I'm only allowed to guess what the problem is...

You say it happens in IE, what about other browsers?

ehm...it's an IE function that comes with the browser. I don't know of any browser that has this functionality built in like IE.

Code is very simple: gridview with one button. Gridview is set to allow paging but when button is clicked paging=false and all records are displayed on one page.

I can't help without seeing the code, sorry.