Search for Specific Document Types in Mac OS X

A quick tip for Mac OS X Lion users tonight.

Previously, I have covered the way to search for specific document types using Windows Search which ended up being rather unintuitive and complex for a regular user (and to be honest, I forgot about the command as well).

The good news is that under Mac OS X Lion it’s somewhat easier to narrow your searches by file type. All you need to do is prefix the document type with “kind:” followed by the document type. So you might try the following:

kind: excel

kind: pdf

kind: word

It’s a fairly simple way to home in on a file when you know the file type but perhaps not the name

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