Convert Word to PDF
Convert Word documents (DOC, DOCX) to PDF format. Upload a Word file to create a PDF.
Combine multiple PDFs into one
Split a PDF into separate files
Reorder pages by dragging
Pull specific pages out
Pull all images out
Remove pages from PDF
Rotate pages in any direction
Stack one PDF onto another
Reduce PDF file size
Clean up unused data
Make scanned text searchable
Spot the differences between two PDFs
Add text, signatures, shapes
Add your signature anywhere
Add text or image watermark
Number pages as 1, i or A
Add sticky-note comments
Ready-to-use forms to fill online
Add a password
Unlock a PDF with its password
Black out sensitive info
Editable .docx export
Tables as .xlsx
Each page as a JPG
Each page as a PNG
Each page as a WebP
Turn JPG images into a PDF
Turn PNG images into a PDF
Combine JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP into one PDF
Convert .docx to PDF
Convert .xlsx to PDF
Convert .pptx to PDF
Turn an HTML file into a PDF
Capture a webpage
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Word to PDF that keeps your document's page setup
This docx to PDF converter takes every page's paper size, margins and orientation from the document, section by section. It has no layout settings of its own: to change any of them, change them in Word and convert again.
The words go into the PDF as real text, not as a picture of the page, so anyone who needs to convert docx to PDF can still search, select and copy them afterward.
What carries over from DOCX to PDF
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Headers and page numbers
Headers, footers and page number fields are filled in page by page, with the same numbering the document uses.
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Links you can click
Web addresses and email links in the text still open when someone clicks them in the PDF.
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Pictures and tables
Images, tables and shapes come across with the text that surrounds them.
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No filler blank pages
Empty pages the layout would add on its own, for example after a section break, are left out of the PDF.
What happens to a document during conversion
When you click Convert to PDF, the file is uploaded and opened by a word processor on our server. It lays the document out page by page, as it would for printing, and exports those pages as a PDF that comes straight back to your browser.
The finished PDF opens in a panel with a preview of its pages, the original and converted file sizes, and buttons to download, share or remove it.
Files in a batch are sent to the server one at a time, and the button counts through them as each one finishes, so a long list takes as long as its documents combined.
Each conversion is allowed up to six minutes. A document that needs longer is stopped with an error instead of being left to run.
Get the document ready in Word
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Embed your fonts
In Word, go to File, Options, Save and tick Embed fonts in the file. The PDF then uses your own fonts rather than close substitutes.
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Settle tracked changes
Accept or reject tracked changes and delete comments you don't want to share, so the PDF shows only the final text.
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Update the table of contents
Right-click the table of contents and choose Update Field, so its page numbers are current when you save.
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Name the file first
A single PDF takes the document's name, with spaces and special characters turned into underscores and our site name added. Rename the file before uploading if you want a different name.
PDF or Word?
Our guide shows when a document should go out as a PDF and when to keep it in Word.
How to convert DOC and DOCX files
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Add your documents
Drop one DOC or DOCX file onto the dropzone, or several at once.
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Convert them
Click Convert to PDF. Several files are converted one after another.
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Download the result
One file gives you a PDF. A batch arrives as one ZIP, and each file in it also has its own download button.
Going the other way?
To turn a PDF back into a document you can edit, start from PDF to Word.
Word to PDF questions
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The pages are laid out again on our server rather than printed from Word. If the document uses a font that is neither on the server nor embedded in the file, a similar font takes its place, and a line or page break can move.
Yes. Files from older versions of Word go through the same conversion as DOCX, so there is no need to save them in the newer format first.
No, this page takes DOC and DOCX only, and other files are turned away with a message naming those two formats. Export the document in Word format from the app it came from, then convert it. Rich text files have their own converter, RTF to PDF.
Yes. A file whose name has no extension is treated as a DOCX document and converted as usual.
The rest are still converted. The result lists every file, with the reason next to any that failed, and the ZIP holds the ones that worked.
Inside the ZIP, each PDF keeps its document's name with .pdf at the end, and two files with the same name are numbered. The ZIP itself is called converted-pdfs, followed by the number of files.
Yes. The result has an Open in Editor button that takes the PDF to Edit PDF, where you can add text, shapes and signatures.