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.
Drop Word files here
Drag them straight from your desktop
- 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.
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