Excel.Range.Find method

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Published on 2010-04-12T11:24:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 11:33 UTC
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I am using Excel interop object and trying to find a date in a specified range by below method

Excel.Range rngFind = WS.get_Range(strFromRange, strToRange).Find(strFind, Type.Missing,
                Excel.XlFindLookIn.xlFormulas, Excel.XlLookAt.xlPart, Excel.XlSearchOrder.xlByRows,
                Excel.XlSearchDirection.xlNext, false, false, false);

but i get rngFind as null always my strFind = "Sep-08" i tried with both Excel.XlFindLookIn.xlFormulas and Excel.XlFindLookIn.xlValues

my excel file looks like this

Sep-08  Oct-08  Nov-08  Dec-08  Jan-09  Feb-09  Mar-09  Apr-09  May-09  Jun-09  Jul-09

where as wheni click on Sep-08 cell i get 9/1/2008 in the formula field in Excel i have also tried searching for 9/1/2008 but it varies system by system as per the RegionalSettings Date format...

Please help me. basically i am doing to get the cell address of the finding string

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