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Default Checking specific text string in excel files stored in a folder

Hi,
I need to write a code that can do the following:
1) prompt user to select a particular folder
2) search for a particular text string, for e.g., ABCD in all the
excel files in that folder (the number of files in the folder will
vary and so does the names of the files). Is it possible to specify
the string that we want to search on the fly when macro is run?
3) create a simple report that contains the filename in one column and
yes / no in the second column that tell me which file names contain
that keyword (it will be great if the path of the file can be recorded
in the 3rd column that we can click to open the file).

Currently we do this manually and I am looking for a way to automate
the same.

Any help on this will be much appreciated. Thanks.