If you can not use VBA tags, use CODE tags.

Where did you start your search from? Please post that code part. I don't see how a reference could change things.

I have had some problems with some search methods when searching from c:\. Using FileSearch with Excel 2007 won't work. For it, I prefer a DOS method over the scripting object method. The DOS method that I used was posted at: http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22245