Word to PDF

Word decides where its pages end with its own layout engine, and no browser has that engine. So you choose how to cut: only where the file itself records a page ending, which is exact but does nothing to a document that records none, or re-typeset onto the page size the document asks for and cut every page, which always gives you pages but can land them differently from Word.

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  • No file limit
Drop your files hereor click to chooseNo size limit and no count limit — only what your own computer can hold.

Your files

The first is exact but gives one PDF when the file records no breaks. The second always gives pages, but they can differ from Word.

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    Where your file goes

    Nowhere. This page downloads a small program into your browser, and that program reads the file straight from your disk. The program comes from this site like any image or stylesheet — but your file only ever travels from your disk into your own browser tab.

    Why this one

    What you get that the big converters cannot offer.

    It shows you what it found

    Every run reports how many manual breaks and how many Word-recorded page marks were in the file. Of thirteen real documents we opened, eleven had neither — those can only come out as one PDF, and the page says so instead of pretending.

    The text stays text

    Pages are written as real text with an embedded font, not as pictures of pages. You can select and search the result. A Latin-only document needs no font download at all; Chinese, Japanese or Korean pulls in a 4 MB font once.

    Many files come back as one zip

    A thirty-page document is thirty PDFs, and thirty downloads in a row get blocked by the browser. Anything past the first file is packed into a single zip instead.

    The document never leaves the machine

    Contracts, offers and appraisals are exactly what people would rather not hand to a converter. There is no server here to hand it to.

    How to use it

    Choose a .docx file. Older .doc files have to be saved as .docx in Word first.

    Pick how to cut: only at page breaks recorded in the file, or re-typeset and cut every page.

    Press Start, then download the PDF, or the zip if there is more than one.

    When people use it

    Sending one part of a long report

    The reader needs the section that concerns them, not the other forty pages, and you would rather not print to PDF and split it again.

    A form wants each page separately

    Upload boxes that take one page at a time are common in applications and claims, and they only accept PDF.

    Filing a document page by page

    Some archives and case systems store one page per record, so the split has to happen before the upload.

    Questions

    Will the pages match what Word prints?

    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, and line height, fonts and hyphenation will not be identical to Word, so the split can fall a line or two away from where Word would put it.

    Why did I only get one PDF?

    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 — Word works it out when it opens them. Switch to the second option to have this page work out its own pages.

    What does not survive the conversion?

    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.

    Can it open an old .doc file?

    No. The old .doc is a binary format from before 2007 and nothing here can read it. Open it in Word and save as .docx first.

    Why is there a font download for Chinese?

    A PDF that shows Chinese has to carry the shapes of the characters inside it. 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 use the fonts every PDF reader already has, so they download nothing.

    Is my document uploaded?

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

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