Convert a Word document to PDF
Convert a Word document to PDF with headings, lists, tables and formatting preserved as real selectable text — not a screenshot. Conversion happens in your browser, so contracts and CVs never leave your device.
Word to PDF
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How to convert Word to PDF
- Add your document. Drag a .docx file onto the drop zone. It is read directly by your browser and is not sent anywhere.
- Choose page settings. Pick A4 or Letter and set the margin. The defaults suit most documents.
- Convert. The document is parsed into headings, paragraphs, lists and tables, then laid out onto pages with proper text wrapping and page breaks.
- Download. Save the PDF. The text stays selectable and searchable.
Real text, not a picture of your document
Most browser-based document converters take a shortcut: they render the document to a canvas and embed that image in a PDF. It is far less work and it looks fine at first glance, but the result is a picture of text. You cannot select it, search it, copy from it or have a screen reader read it, and the file is several times larger than it needs to be.
This tool does the harder thing. Your document is parsed into its actual structure — headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, bold and italic — and each piece is drawn into the PDF as real text with embedded fonts. Word wrapping, page breaks and table layout are computed properly.
The practical difference: you can search the output, copy a paragraph out of it, and it will be a fraction of the size. A ten-page report typically comes out under 100KB rather than several megabytes.
What converts perfectly, and what reflows
Being clear about this up front is more useful than a vague promise of fidelity.
- Converts faithfully — reports, letters, contracts, CVs, essays, meeting notes. Anything that is fundamentally a single column of text with headings and the occasional table.
- Converts well — documents with bulleted and numbered lists, including nested ones, and simple tables with header rows.
- Reflows — multi-column layouts, text wrapped around floating images, and precisely positioned elements. The content is all there and correctly ordered, but arranged as a clean single-column document rather than reproducing the original geometry.
- Not carried over — embedded images, charts, headers and footers, and page-specific formatting. The tool tells you when it encounters something it could not represent, rather than dropping it silently.
Why the document never leaves your device
Word documents are among the most sensitive files people convert. Employment contracts, offer letters, legal drafts, medical letters, CVs with a home address and phone number on them — these are precisely the documents where uploading to a free web service is a bad idea, and precisely the documents people convert most often.
Because parsing and layout both happen in your browser, none of that is transmitted. You can convert an unsigned contract or a CV with your full contact details and be certain it went nowhere, which you can confirm in the Network tab of your browser's developer tools.
Frequently asked questions
Will the PDF look exactly like my Word document?
For ordinary single-column documents — reports, letters, contracts, CVs — very close. Multi-column layouts and floating images reflow into a clean single column instead of matching the original geometry exactly. Content and order are always preserved.
Is my document uploaded?
No. Parsing and PDF generation both happen in your browser. This matters more here than for most tools, since Word documents are so often contracts, offer letters and CVs.
Will the text be selectable in the PDF?
Yes. This is the main reason the tool works the way it does — the output is real text with embedded fonts, so you can select, search and copy it. Converters that rasterise the page give you none of that.
Are tables preserved?
Yes, as real tables with ruled cells and a shaded header row. Cell text wraps properly and rows break across pages where needed.
Can I convert an old .doc file?
No — only .docx. The older binary .doc format is a different thing entirely. Open it in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice and save as .docx first.
What happens to images in my document?
They are not carried over in this version, and the tool tells you when it skipped something rather than leaving you to notice later.
Why is the PDF so much smaller than I expected?
Because it contains text rather than pictures of text. A ten-page report is typically under 100KB, where a rasterised conversion of the same document would be several megabytes.
Does it add a watermark?
No. The output is completely clean, with no watermark, page limit or sign-up prompt.