Tools

Word to PDF

Drop a .docx and the PDF is on screen at once: paragraphs, lists, tables, pictures, headers and footers with page numbers, links - laid out page by page as Word would. The document's fonts are shown in matching embedded families and the tool tells you which. Everything runs in your browser; the file never leaves your device.

Step-by-step guide with screenshots

Drop Word files here

Drag them straight from your desktop

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  • Word files (.docx)
  • Up to 15 MB each
  • 2 files a run - unlimited with Pro

Frequently asked questions

How close to Word is the PDF?

Close, not identical. The layout is done here, page by page, with Word's rules for spacing, indents, tabs, lists and tables - but the fonts are different: a browser can't read the fonts installed on your computer, so the text is set in embedded families of the same kind (a serif for Times or Cambria, a monospace for Courier, a sans for the rest), and a line may break a word earlier or later than Word did. The tool lists every font it replaced. Nothing is uploaded; the conversion runs in your browser.

What is kept?

Paragraph formatting (alignment, indents, spacing, borders, shading), bold, italic, underline, colour, highlight, super- and subscript, bulleted and numbered lists, tables with borders, shading, merged cells and header rows, inline pictures (PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, WebP), page breaks, sections with their own page size and margins, headers and footers with PAGE and NUMPAGES fields, text boxes with their fill and border where Word placed them, footnotes at the foot of their page and endnotes after the text, and hyperlinks as clickable links.

What is left out?

Comments, tracked changes (deletions are dropped, insertions kept), shapes without text, text wrapping around a text box (the box sits over the text), pictures in EMF, WMF or TIFF, equations, and fields other than the page numbers. A document that leans on these is better saved as PDF from Word itself.

Can I convert an old .doc?

Not directly - the old binary format needs Word to read it. Open it in Word (or LibreOffice) and save it as .docx, then drop that here.

Where does the PDF's paper size come from?

From the document itself: each section's page size and margins are used as Word has them, so a document set up for A4 comes out A4 and a landscape section stays landscape. If you need a different size afterwards, run the PDF through Resize pages.

Can I convert several documents in one go?

Yes - drop them all in. Each is converted as it arrives, so you see the pages and the font report per file before you save, and each comes back as its own PDF.

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