<p>If you use Google's webmail service, Gmail, you can now search attachments in your e-mail messages that are in formats from popular programs, such as Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, and others.</p><p>To perform an attachment search, you need to type into the search bar the statement has:attachment and your search terms. For example, a search through all your attachments for the word Obama would look like this: has:attachment Obama. If you wanted to limit the search to just PDF files that contained the word Obama, the search would look like this: has:attachment filename:PDF Obama.</p><p>Previously, Gmail allowed you to search inside attachments that are text files or HTML documents, but not in other file formats such as Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, Alex Chitu explains in his Google Operating System blog.</p><p>The new Gmail search feature may not have been rolled out globally yet, as some Gmail users note in comments to Chitu's posting.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010889/gmail-adds-support-for-search-inside-message-attachments.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/gmail-gets-ability-to-search-through-attachments-2012-10">Gmail Gets Ability To Search Through Attachments</a> (WebProNews)</p><p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5947922/gmail-now-searches-for-text-inside-attachments">Gmail Now Searches for Text Inside Attachments</a> (Lifehacker)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dTBE9q5KFg2Ng3MjteljgWD-qDU-M">7 additional articles.</a></p>