How to convert Word to PDF
Quick answer: To convert Word to PDF, add your .docx file, check the preview and press Download PDF.
- Add your .docx file. Drag it onto the box or click to choose it. The pages appear as they'll be in the PDF.
- Check the preview. It uses your document's own page size and margins; there's nothing to set.
- Press Download PDF. The PDF downloads straight away. Its text can be selected, copied and searched.
- Prefer the printer's text? Print / Save as PDF gives the same pages with text drawn by your browser's printer. Choose "Save as PDF" as the printer.
What's kept
The page size and margins, fonts and their spacing, line and paragraph spacing, page breaks, headers and footers with page numbers, tables, and pictures at their exact positions, including floating logos. Calibri, Cambria, Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New are laid out with fonts of the same width, so lines break where Word breaks them even on a phone.
What may differ
Text boxes, drawn shapes, charts and SmartArt are left out or shown as plain text, and the page tells you when a document has them. A font that's neither on your device nor one of the five above is replaced by a similar one, which can move line breaks.
Old .doc files
Only the modern .docx format is supported. Open an old .doc in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice and save it as .docx first.
Private by design
Most online converters upload your file to their server. Here the conversion runs inside your browser, so contracts, CVs and letters stay on your device.
Frequently asked questions
Will the PDF look exactly like my Word document?
For most documents, yes: page size, margins, spacing, fonts and picture positions are kept. Text boxes, shapes and charts are the exceptions, and the page warns you when your document has them.
Is the text in the PDF selectable?
Yes. Each page is an exact picture of the document with its text laid over it, so you can search, select and copy. Print / Save as PDF gives text drawn by the printer instead.
Does it work for Urdu, Arabic, Hindi or Chinese?
Yes. The pages are drawn by your browser, so every script shows correctly. Searching the PDF works for Latin letters; use Print / Save as PDF if you need to search other scripts.
Is there a file size limit?
Documents up to about 50 MB work on most computers. Long documents with many images take longer on phones.