Searching for text string in Excel files

[Bill Finegan]

Trying to located Excel files containing a specific text string. Windows XP
Search does not find (though string does exist!). Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I've never used this (won't run in win98), but it sounds really promising:

http://desktop.google.com/

(And I think you're limited to local harddrives--no network drives)

 

[Gord Dibben]

Bill

Use the FREE downloadable Agent Ransack search tool.

Far superior to Windows search for files and text within files.

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/pageloader.aspx?page=download

Gord Dibben Excel MVP



On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:05:03 -0700, Bill Finegan <Bill