I have a forum and I want to attach Excel Speadsheets to it have have relevant keywords in them. Does google read these speadsheet files? What about PDF's? Thanks.

No and yes

Originally Posted by CrazyCalm

I have a forum and I want to attach Excel Speadsheets to it have have relevant keywords in them. Does google read these speadsheet files? What about PDF's? Thanks.

Yes, Google does crawl Excel documents and PDF as well.

But I didn't get your question on the spreadsheet having keywords in them???

Why attach those documents?
Do you want your xls documents to be high ranked or forum
What is initial goal here?

Do you want to rank your excel document against some keywords?

yes ..google do

Yes, Google crawls them.

Google crawls and gives PR to PDF pages.

Originally Posted by CrazyCalm

I have a forum and I want to attach Excel Speadsheets to it have have relevant keywords in them. Does google read these speadsheet files? What about PDF's? Thanks.

yes google does read excel spreadsheets as well as pdfs.although there has to be an acrobat reader otherwise.you can read it as a google document.