Exporting EXIF and other metadata

I would like to export EXIF data into a spreadsheet format for my photography course assignment, but the "Export Metadata" menu option only puts out a limited set of metadata fields. I downloaded a trial version of Aperture 2 but that doesn't seem any better.
Is there any way of exporting the full set of metadata, or at least the EXIF data?

If you're comfortable using the command line, exiftool will do this for you.
When my house flooded back in September, I had to take pictures of all the damaged items in the house for an insurance claim. After adding the metadata and exporting the images as jpegs, I used exiftool to extract the metadata into a csv file for importing into a spread sheet. The csv file contained the caption, keywords, filename and headline. Just google exiftool.

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