Word to PDF
Local only — nothing is uploaded unless you save or share it.
Convert a Word document to PDF in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
- Drop your .docx file in, or choose it from your computer.
- Pick A4 or Letter, then press Convert.
- Download the PDF, or save it to your account to pick up on another device.
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About this tool
Drop a .docx in and get a PDF out, without the document ever leaving your computer. Every other free Word to PDF converter asks you to upload the file first — and a Word document is very often the thing you least want to hand over: a contract, a CV, a payslip, a letter from a solicitor. This one reads the file in the browser tab you already have open. It keeps the structure that matters. Headings stay headings and stay in proportion, bold and italic survive inside a sentence, numbered lists keep their numbers and bulleted lists keep their bullets, tables come across as tables with their borders, and pictures are placed at the size Word recorded for them. Page breaks you put in are page breaks in the PDF. What it does not do is pretend to be Word. Headers and footers, footnotes, text boxes, tracked changes and multi-column layouts are not carried over, and the page will tell you when it has met one of them rather than quietly leaving it out. Fonts are not copied from your machine either — the text is set in a clean, readable face, so the result looks tidy rather than pixel-identical. If you need an exact visual copy of a heavily designed document, print it to PDF from Word itself. If you need a shareable PDF of something written, this is faster and it does not involve giving your document to a stranger.
Frequently asked questions
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion happens inside your browser, on your own machine, and the file never leaves it. There is nothing to delete afterwards because nothing arrived. The one exception is if you press Save to my files, which is a deliberate act that puts the finished PDF in your account.
What does it keep, and what does it lose?
It keeps headings, bold, italic, paragraph alignment, numbered and bulleted lists, tables, inline images and manual page breaks. It does not carry over headers and footers, footnotes, text boxes, tracked changes, fields, or multi-column layouts. When the document contains one of those, the page says so after converting rather than leaving you to notice.
Will it look exactly like it does in Word?
Close, but not identical. Your document's own fonts are not read off your computer, so the text is set in a clean substitute at the same relative sizes. Line breaks therefore fall in slightly different places. For a plain report or letter the result is what you would expect; for a heavily designed page, printing to PDF from Word gives an exact copy.
Does it work with .doc files?
No, only .docx. The older .doc format is a completely different, undocumented binary format rather than a zip of XML. Open it in Word or a free editor and save it as .docx first, which takes a few seconds.
Are accented and non-Latin characters handled?
Yes. Polish, Czech, Turkish, Greek and Cyrillic text all come out correctly. A document that needs those has a font built into the PDF, which makes the file noticeably larger; a plain English document uses the fonts every PDF reader already has and stays small.
How big a document can it handle?
Up to 25 MB, which is a very long document unless it is full of photographs. The limit is memory in the browser tab rather than a rule about plans, and it applies the same whether you are signed in or not.
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