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Google Search Engine - Search for Only Word or PDF Documents

SUMMARY: Search for Word and Adobe documents with ease using Google.

If you need to search for non-HTML documents, such as Microsoft Word (.DOC) or Adobe PDF documents, you can do so with a basic Google search, but Google will intermix these types of documents with standard web pages. If you know your result must be a certain document type, however, you can force Google to only look through non-HTML documents. Just add the following extension to your search query:

filetype:FILETYPE

For example, to search for "car insurance" using Google, but only return Adobe PDF documents, your query would be:

"car insurance" filetype:pdf

To search for "wedding checklist" but only return Microsoft Word documents (.DOC), your query would be:

"wedding checklist" filetype:doc

 

Press the "print" button on your browser or select "File" - "Print" to print this tip. Then, return to Google Search Engine - Search for Only Word or PDF Documents

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