Finder doesn't find new excel files

I run an online business and we store customer information in Excel files (Office for Mac 2011). When I search for names in finder, it only shows the files from 2011 or older. New Excel sheets (one is created each day for the days orders) are not found. I have one open right now with the name Trevor Alin. When I search Trevor Alin in Finder, it returns only an old sheet from 2011, it won't show todays file. The same is true for files from months ago.
Is there anything I can do to ensure finder searches new excel files?

Console is just a log reader…
/Applications/Utilities/Console
You are probably thinking of Terminal
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal
I think you may need to post to Launchbar's support unless someone else can help, I don't use it & don't know if it only uses Spotlight's index for finding items.
http://www.obdev.at/support/index.html?product=LB
Does Spotlight find the items now? If it does better than Launchbar you will need to look at how to refresh LB's index.

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