How do I use an Excel list to relocate files on my computer? Scripting?

Question

I have a very large file at work with hundreds of rows of data at a time.
Every week or so we need to find a certain amount of those SKU's and find the corresponding file to send out to our buyers.
Excel Data:
A438-9
A2974-87
D4049-90
A1799-41
P1231-3947
Now scattered throughout the main computer in different folders, are the photo files of every product, titled by product code:
A438-9.tif    
A2974-87.jpg    
D4049-90.jpg
A1799-41.png
P1231-3947.tif
So now, let's say a buyer wants to see what those 5 products look like.
What we're doing now is copying the values in each independent cell, opening spotlight on the finder, pasting the value, then the corresponding file comes up
then we drag it into a folder thats on the desktop. We do this for all 5 products, copy, paste, drag, drop, repeat. We then send it to the customer.
What is the issue is that there aren't 5 products, there's 150 or so each week. Takes up a good hour to do this and there has to be an easier way.
I tried using some of the scripts I looked up online but it kept saying 'compile error'
Please help!!

Answer 1

This will take all names listed in Col A, search for that name (in the Home Directory) with a jpg or tif or png extension, and if found, copy to the Desktop (edit as needed):
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
          tell active sheet
                    tell used range
                              set rc to count of rows
                    end tell
                    set theList to get value of range ("A1:A" & rc) as list
                    repeat with theItem in theList
                              do shell script "find ~  \\( -iname " & quoted form of (theItem & ".jpg" as string) & " -o -iname " & quoted form of (theItem & ".tif" as string) & " -o -iname " & quoted form of (theItem & ".png" as string) & " \\)  -exec cp {} ~/Desktop/ \\; "
                    end repeat
          end tell
end tell
(This is similiar to the post in: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23682857)