Word to PDF
Turn a .docx into a PDF without uploading it anywhere. The conversion happens inside this browser tab, so the document never leaves your computer.
Your file stays on your computer. There is no upload on this page — the conversion runs in your browser, so nothing reaches our server and there is nothing stored to delete. It works offline, and it works on a file you would not send to a stranger.
Choose a file above, then press Convert.
How to convert Word to PDF
- Choose the .docx file, or drop it on the box above. The From and To menus are already set to Word and PDF.
- Press Convert. The first few lines of the document appear, so you can see it worked before you save anything.
- Press Download. The PDF is built in the tab and saved straight to your computer.
What comes across, and what does not
This is a re-typesetting, not a photograph of your document. The words are read out of the .docx and set again on A4, which means the result is a clean, readable PDF of your text rather than a pixel-for-pixel copy of what Word showed you.
- Comes across: paragraphs, headings and their levels, bold and italic, bulleted and numbered lists, tables with their rows and columns, accented letters, curly quotes, dashes and the usual symbols.
- Does not: your chosen fonts, Word’s own line and page breaks, columns, text boxes, headers and footers, page numbers, images, and anything you positioned by hand.
For a letter, a report, a set of notes, an assignment or a CV with a simple layout, that is the document. For a designed page - a CV with a coloured sidebar, a poster, a form made of boxes - it is a plain retype of the words in it, which may not be what you were after.
When to use Word’s own Save as PDF instead
If you have Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs open in front of you and the exact layout matters, use File, then Save as, then PDF. Those programs contain the layout engine that decided where every line broke; a browser does not, and nothing that runs in one can match them on a page that was designed rather than typed.
Use this page when you do not have Word to hand, when you are on a phone, when the file is something you would rather not hand to a website, or when what you need is the text in a format that opens everywhere.
Why there is nothing to upload
There is no upload on this page, and that is a fact about how it is built rather than a promise in small print. The page contains no form, no fetch and no request of any kind: the file is read by the browser, converted in memory and handed back as a download.
Turn off your network connection and convert a file anyway. It still works, which is the easiest way to prove the claim rather than believe it.
Questions people ask
Is this free?
Yes. No sign-up, no account, no watermark on the PDF, and no limit on how many files you convert.
Is my document uploaded?
No. The page has no upload in it at all - the .docx is read, converted and saved entirely inside your browser. It works with the network disconnected.
Will it keep my formatting?
Headings, bold, italic, bulleted and numbered lists and tables, yes. Your fonts, your page breaks, your images and anything laid out by hand, no - those belong to Word’s layout engine, which is not in a browser.
Does it work with .doc files?
No, only .docx. The old .doc is a different, binary format from the 1990s. Open it in Word or any free word processor and save it as .docx first, then convert that.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. It is the same page and the same conversion - choose the file from your phone’s storage and the PDF saves to your downloads.
Is there a size limit?
About 48 MB. The conversion runs on the browser tab’s own thread, and a file big enough to take a minute looks exactly like a page that has crashed - so it says no in advance instead of appearing to hang.