find in windows (batch files)

Question

Does the find command in windows (command line) work to search inside of excel files?

Answer 1

Yes.

If the text is saved as plaintext in the save file, it will come up in results for find.

Tested on windows7;

Made new "hello.xls" in C:\test, opened in Excel 2007, saved "foo" in cell A1

Opened command window;
c:\test>find "foo" hello.xls

Results

---------- C:\TEST\HELLO.XLS
foo 

Answer 2

I have experienced several times that Find command does not provide all the results. So I prefer to use the wonderful Agent Ransack utility.