How do I convert a Word document to PDF?
Drop one or more .docx files into the box above and click “Convert to PDF”. Each document is laid out page by page and saved as a PDF with the same name. With one file you download the PDF straight away. With several, you get one ZIP holding every PDF, and the list under the result shows each file with its page count and its own download button.
You don’t need Microsoft Word, an account or an app. The tool works in any modern browser on Windows, Mac, Android or iPhone. The PDF opens the same way on every device, which is the point of sending a PDF instead of a DOCX: the reader sees your pages as you made them, without needing your fonts or your version of Word.
Tip: Before converting a CV or a cover letter, check that the file ends in .docx and not .doc. If it is an older .doc file, open it in Word or Google Docs and choose “Save as” .docx first.
What does the PDF keep from my document?
The converter reads the page size, orientation and margins of every section, so a landscape table in the middle of a portrait report stays landscape. Paragraph spacing, indents, alignment and justified text follow the document’s styles, and lines break where Word breaks them because the layout measures text with the widths of the real fonts: Calibri, Cambria, Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New are matched closely.
Bulleted and numbered lists keep their numbering, including multi-level lists such as 1.1 and 1.2. Tables keep their column widths, borders, cell shading, merged cells and row heights, and a header row marked to repeat appears again at the top of each new page. Tab stops with dot leaders, page breaks, pictures in JPEG or PNG, and headers and footers with page numbers like “Page 2 of 9” are all drawn. JPEG photos are copied into the PDF as they are, so they don’t lose quality.
What are the Beta limits?
This is a Beta, and it is better to be plain about what it doesn’t do yet. Text boxes, charts, SmartArt graphics and drawn shapes are not converted. Footnotes and endnotes show their reference number but not the note text. Pictures that float beside text are placed where the document puts them, but the text doesn’t wrap around them. Pictures saved in older formats such as EMF or WMF appear as a gray box. Tables with a single row taller than a page, multi-column page layouts and right-to-left scripts are not handled well either.
When a file has any of these, its row in the result says so, for example “2 text boxes could not be converted”, so you know which PDF to check. Documents in fonts we have no measurements for, such as Aptos, Segoe UI or Georgia, are drawn with a close standard font, and a line can break a word earlier or later than in Word.
Is it safe to convert Word to PDF online?
It is, with this tool, because your document is never uploaded. You open the page online, but the reading, the layout and the PDF writing all happen in your browser, on your own phone or computer. No copy of the file, its name or its text is sent to a server, and nothing is stored after you close the page.
That matters for the documents people convert most: contracts, CVs, offer letters, payslips and school work. After the first use, the converter also keeps working without an internet connection, which is handy on a train or with patchy mobile data. Letters outside Western European languages, such as Greek or Cyrillic, need a small font download the first time a document uses them.