The resulting text document usually carries the file extension ".csv" and can be used as input into many other types of software, including database, geographic-information and page-layout programs.

A CSV (comma-separated values) file is a text file in which information is separated by commas. CSV files are most commonly encountered in spreadsheets and databases. You can use a CSV file to ...

you may be confusing "bam" format with "sam" format, but anyway converting it to csv is easy, and you can view csv in many ways, including in Excel.

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether.