Deep_Level_Shark Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 I want to search a text in all excel files under C:\ which tool can help me ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 jakem1 Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Windows Explorer. If you're using Vista or higher you will need to index the locations you want to search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dick Montage Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 I would use win grep - specify filetype, location and words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Deep_Level_Shark Posted May 27, 2013 Author Share Posted May 27, 2013 Windows Explorer. If you're using Vista or higher you will need to index the locations you want to search. windows 7.Enterprise. How do I tell windows explorer to filter only excel files and search a specific keyword ? Can you please tell me the steps ? I would use win grep - specify filetype, location and words I am getting multiple matches for this tool in google. Can you please tell me which one to download ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dick Montage Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 http://www.wingrep.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Torolol Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 which version of excel files? version 97-2003 (.xls) can be searched directly as the content is not compressed, you can use program like SearchMyFiles from Nirsoft version 2007-... you need program that can search within .zip files, as .xlsx really are .zip file. EDIT: yeah wingrep can do this as its support searching within .zip files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 jakem1 Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 windows 7.Enterprise. How do I tell windows explorer to filter only excel files and search a specific keyword ? Can you please tell me the steps ? Run through these steps first to ensure that Explorer searches file contents: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Windows-7-Search-File-Contents Then in the search box type kind:spreadsheet followed by the text you want to search for. For instance, kind:spreadsheet income will find all spreadsheets containing the word income. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I want to search a text in all excel files under C:\
which tool can help me ?
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