Application . filesearch doesn't work

Hi,

Has anybody else experienced problems using application.filesearch
My code looks something like this:-

Sub FileListSearch()
Call Clear
Dim searchtext As String, qfile As String: qsearchtext = [G5]
[C6].Select
Do Until IsEmpty(ActiveCell)
qfolder = ActiveCell.Value
qfile = ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0)
With Application.FileSearch
.NewSearch
.LookIn = qfolder
.MatchTextExactly = False
.Filename = qfile
.TextOrProperty = qsearchtext
.SearchSubFolders = False
.FileType = msoFileTypeExcelWorkbooks
If .Execute > 0 Then
For i = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count
ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Cells(13 + i,
3), Address:= _
.FoundFiles(i), TextToDisplay:= _
Replace(.FoundFiles(i), qfolder & "\", "")
Next i
End If
End With
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop
End Sub

However whenever I search for a specific reference, In my case a cheque
number it appears in some but not all of the workbooks I expected it to
appear in.
Is there something I need to be careful about with the type of data
is qsearchtext to be defined as an integer, or string?
I can see the cheque number in one of the spreadsheets but it doesn't
come outusing vba code.
As well as this I tried a search using XP explorer and no results
either.
Am I missing a trick here?
Has anyone else overcome these problems using .filesearch.

Any help appreciated

thanks

somethinglikeant

Excel files are not text files, they are binary files. Numbers are recorded
in binary format, not literal strings. Maybe if you enter the check numbers
in cells as text this might work, but you'd have to be alert to the
possibility of false positives.

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| Hi,
|
| Has anybody else experienced problems using application.filesearch
| My code looks something like this:-
|
| Sub FileListSearch()
| Call Clear
| Dim searchtext As String, qfile As String: qsearchtext = [G5]
| [C6].Select
| Do Until IsEmpty(ActiveCell)
| qfolder = ActiveCell.Value
| qfile = ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0)
| With Application.FileSearch
| .NewSearch
| .LookIn = qfolder
| .MatchTextExactly = False
| .Filename = qfile
| .TextOrProperty = qsearchtext
| .SearchSubFolders = False
| .FileType = msoFileTypeExcelWorkbooks
| If .Execute > 0 Then
| For i = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count
| ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Cells(13 + i,
| 3), Address:= _
| .FoundFiles(i), TextToDisplay:= _
| Replace(.FoundFiles(i), qfolder & "\", "")
| Next i
| End If
| End With
| ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
| Loop
| End Sub
|
| However whenever I search for a specific reference, In my case a cheque
| number it appears in some but not all of the workbooks I expected it to
| appear in.
| Is there something I need to be careful about with the type of data
| is qsearchtext to be defined as an integer, or string?
| I can see the cheque number in one of the spreadsheets but it doesn't
| come outusing vba code.
| As well as this I tried a search using XP explorer and no results
| either.
| Am I missing a trick here?
| Has anyone else overcome these problems using .filesearch.
|
| Any help appreciated
|
| thanks
|
| somethinglikeant
|