Searching for a file containing some specified text?
Want Windows to actually bother to look for it?

See "Method 2" here: support.microsoft.com/kb/309173
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 18:01, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Also remember that search won't work on files which are open (and locked)
So if you have 5 Excel files open, and you want to use "search" to see which ones contain a certain value, you can't unless you close them all first.

See, you youngsters all have Photoshop & Maya. Me? I've got the good stuff.
( Ghoti Fingers, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 18:48, Reply)

Wow...
Don't you ever read through KB articles like this and think "Maybe I should be using a Unix style OS?" ;-)
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 11:23, Reply)

I used to
...until I did.
(dchurch bah, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 19:56, Reply)