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Bing Search Engine

Limit Searching to DOC, PDF, PPT, XLS, Other File Types

SUMMARY: Force Bing to return not web pages but word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or other types of files.

Instead of searching Bing for web pages, there may be times where you need to find other types of files. Perhaps you are looking for First Aid/CPR presentations, wedding checklists that can be easily printed as PDF files, or amortization tables in the form of Microsoft Excel worksheets.

While performing normal Bing searches may result in other types of files being intermixed with web pages, you can force the results to only contain files of desired types by appending the following to your search query:

filetype:FILETYPE

For example, to search for amortization tables in the form of Excel worksheets, perform the following query:

amortization table filetype:xls

Or, to search for wedding checklists but only return PDF files, your query might be:

wedding checklist filetype:pdf

Return to the Bing Search Engine page.

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