Hi everyone, this is my first post here so please be patient with me.

I am looking to create a macro that looks through all files in a folder and its subfolders (and potentially expand it later to look through the whole drive) that contain a specific ID (alpha-numeric with symbols, not sure if that makes a big difference). Ideally I would like to retrieve the files, but a list of the files that contain that text would be good too.

I am not asking for the code to do it, I am learning how to use VBA and would like to do it myself to improve my learning process. I would really appreciate some guidance towards where to start and what resources that some of you know about (preferably free) that I can use to learn the tools and coding skills I can use to develop this and further my understanding of the process of creating complex macros.

Any help or direction is very much appreciated!

Thank you!