Google can limit its search results to contain specific types of files. For example, if you’re writing a social media policy for your company, you might find it beneficial to see some examples. You could limit a Google search to Microsoft Word documents only. This is easy to do using Google’s filetype: keyword.
Here’s how: Type this in a Google search box (no space between the filetype and colon)
social media policy filetype:pdf
Search results (partial):
Popular Google filetype search options with examples:
- Excel: xls
- home amortization filetype:xls
- buy vs. lease filetype:xls
- PowerPoint: ppt
- global warming filetype:ppt
- retirement planning filetype:ppt
- Word: doc
- business plan template filetype:doc
- 5160 labels filetype:doc
- award certificate filetype:doc
- Acrobat: pdf
- health care proxy filetype:pdf
- 1099 -filetype:pdf / In this example, the minus sign preceding filetype EXCLUDES pdf documents for this search
- Image: jpg
- us flag filetype:jpg