Searching multiple excel documents

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Phil

When searching for P.O. numbers in windows 2000 basic
search command I enter the *.xls in the files or folders
field, and i enter the P.O. number in the Containing text
field but no xls documents show up.
i've selected to search through all subdirectories and am
positive the P.O. number is in a xls document, as i've cut
and pasted it to test this.
I've tried doing alpha numeric searches that are withing
xls documents and this returns nothing aswell.
doing a pure text search in all documents does return
positive, so my search funtion does work for containting
text.
does windows 200o not allow numeric searches for the
containing text option?

please help.
 

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