FindReplaceExcel can find text and replace text inside workbooks and worksheets WITHOUT being opened from Excel.

The program will search your computer for Excel files containing text strings The strings can be inside comments, values or text cells. Full backup copies of altered files are made.
The program can
- perform fast searches and text replacement
- search individual worksheets and workbooks
-backup workbooks before replacing cells
- Backup logfile of files copied
- search and replace by range row OR range column
- find numbers or strings in EXCEL cells
-search by values, formulas and comments
-search/replace by partial text matching or whole word matching in cells
-search all storage devices attached to your system, including floppy drives, hard drives, CD\DVD Rom drives, and network drives.
-display file properties by right clicking file results
-search multiple directories and drives,
-change color of cell being replaced by text
-view files
-search results can be printed or saved to a file for analysis