Word to PDF

Only when the file itself records where its pages ended, which happens when the document has manual page breaks or was last saved by Word. In that case the first option cuts on exactly those points. The second option re-typesets the text here, so the split can fall a line or two away from where Word would put it.

Because the document records no page endings at all. Files exported from Google Docs, Feishu, Notion and most server-side generators contain no page information. Switch to the second option to have this page work out its own pages.

Headers, footers, page numbers, footnotes, endnotes, comments, tracked-change marks, text boxes, shapes, charts and equations are not drawn. Tables, inline images, bold, italic, colour, alignment, lists and indents are. Your original fonts are replaced by one substitute face. One catch for Chinese, Japanese and Korean: the substitute face has a single weight, so bold is faked by drawing each glyph twice a hair apart and italic is not slanted at all. Latin text gets real bold and italic faces.

No, the old .doc format cannot be read here. Open it in Word and save as .docx first.

This page downloads a 4 MB open-source font once, cuts out only the characters your document uses, and puts those in the PDF. Documents without such characters download nothing.

No. The .docx is unzipped and read in the browser tab, and the PDFs are written there too.

Leave the Output option on its first setting, One PDF for the whole document, which is already selected when the page opens. Choose your .docx and press Start. You get one PDF named after the original file. The splitting options are only needed when you want separate PDFs for parts or pages of the document.

The page size and margins written in the .docx itself. If the file does not record a page size, it falls back to A4. Some images can also go missing: drawings that Word stores as EMF or WMF, which is common for diagrams pasted from other programs, cannot be read here. The page tells you how many images were left out.

Yes. Add several .docx files and each one is converted with the same output setting. The page lists what it found in each file. When there is more than one PDF in the end, they are packed into one zip. A file that cannot be read, such as an old .doc, is marked as failed and the rest still go through.