findreplaceexcel is a find/replace utility to search excel files for text, values and comments and replace the text inside cells automatically without opening workbooks . the program can search ranges in worksheets. multiple drives and directories can be searched. individual worksheets can be searched within workbooks. cells can be searched for partial text matching and/or case letters. excel files are backed up before changes are made. the program can perform fast searches and text replacement ,search individual worksheets and workbooks, backup workbooks before replacing cells , maintain a backup logfile of files copied , search and replace by range row or range column and find numbers or strings in excel cells you must enter a beginning and end range for rows and columns. altered excel cells can have a different color to indicate changes. findreplaceexcel will search all storage devices attached to your system, including floppy drives, hard drives, cd\dvd rom drives, and network drives.