Word to PDF
Convert a Word document to PDF in your browser, keeping its formatting. Fonts, colours, tables, images, headers, footers and the document's own page size all carry across. Nothing is uploaded.
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Word documents already specify a page size and orientation. Leave this alone unless you need a different one.
Higher is crisper but makes a larger file.
- ProcessingOn your device
- Uploaded to a serverNothing
- InternetNot needed
Don't take our word for it. Turn off your Wi‑Fi, then use this tool. It will work exactly the same, which is only possible because your file never goes anywhere.
Worth knowing
Your document's formatting is read from the file itself, not approximated: styles, theme colours and fonts, direct formatting, tables with their borders and shading, lists, images, headers and footers, and the page size and margins you set. What will not match Word exactly is where lines break, because a browser hyphenates and justifies slightly differently — over a long document that can shift things by a line or so per page.
Fonts that are not installed on this device get substituted. Calibri and Cambria have close metric-compatible stand-ins, so the spacing holds up, but a document built on an unusual font will not look identical.
Only .docx works. The older .doc format is a binary format from before 2007 that no browser can read — open it in Word or Google Docs and re-save it first.
Questions people ask
Does my formatting survive?
Yes. A .docx states its own appearance — page size, margins, styles, fonts, theme colours, table rules, shading — and all of that is read out of the file and rebuilt. Bold, colours, alignment, indents, line spacing, numbered and bulleted lists, tables with merged cells and banded rows, embedded images, headers and footers with working page numbers, and hard page breaks all come across. The one thing that will not match exactly is where lines break, because no two layout engines wrap text identically.
Why not just use Word's own Save as PDF?
If you have Word open, it is still the most faithful option — it is Word rendering itself. This is for when you do not have Word to hand: someone emailed you a .docx, you are on a phone or a borrowed machine, and you need a PDF now without installing anything or handing your file to a website.
My .doc file will not convert.
The old .doc format is binary and predates 2007; browsers cannot read it. Open it in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice and save as .docx, which is a ZIP of XML and can be read here.
Do images in my document survive?
Images embedded in the .docx are carried through at their original size and position. Two exceptions, both stated rather than hidden: images linked from another website will not appear, because your browser will not fetch someone else's files on your behalf; and images saved as Windows metafiles (EMF or WMF) cannot be drawn by any browser, so if your document has any you will be told how many. Re-saving those as PNG in Word fixes it.
Can I choose the page size?
It defaults to whatever the document already specifies — including orientation and each of the four margins — because that is what the author decided. You can override it with A4, US Letter or Legal, and pick a uniform margin, if you need something different.
Which fonts does it use?
The ones your document names, if they are installed on the device doing the converting. If not, a close substitute is used — Carlito for Calibri and Caladea for Cambria, both metric-compatible, so line lengths and spacing stay put. Theme fonts are resolved properly too, so a document using the built-in heading and body pair keeps that pairing.
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. The .docx is unzipped and rendered inside your browser, and the PDF is written there too. Nothing leaves the device.
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