Word to PDF
Convert DOCX to PDF — free, private, in your browser
Turn a Word document into a clean, shareable PDF — with fonts, spacing, tables and page numbers intact. It runs entirely in your browser, so your document is never uploaded.
Why convert Word to PDF
A .docx looks different depending on which version of Word opens it and which fonts are installed. A PDF looks the same everywhere, which is why it’s the format expected for CVs, invoices, contracts, coursework and application forms. Converting first means the person opening it sees exactly what you saw.What carries across
Filesmith builds the PDF from real text rather than a flattened image, so it stays selectable, searchable and small. Headings and styles, bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, colours and highlights, alignment, spacing and indents, bullet and numbered lists, custom tab stops with dot leaders, running headers and footers with live page numbers, footnotes and endnotes, clickable hyperlinks, text boxes, section breaks that change page size or orientation, multi-column layouts, images, and tables with merged cells and repeating header rows. Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese text is supported.Fonts and page counts
PDFs can only draw fonts embedded in the file or built into the PDF standard. Filesmith embeds metric-compatible substitutes — Carlito for Calibri, Arimo for Arial, Tinos for Times New Roman — with identical character widths, so lines break where Word broke them and the page count matches.Old .doc files
The old binary .doc format can’t be read in a browser. Open it in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice and save it as .docx first, then convert it here.What doesn't cross over
PDF is a finished document, so anything that only makes sense while a file is still being worked on gets resolved or dropped:
- Tracked changes and comments. Accept or reject everything before you convert. A PDF made from a document with pending revisions can bake the markup into the page, which is an awkward thing to discover after sending a contract.
- Form fields become flat text. If you need a fillable PDF, that has to be built in PDF rather than converted from Word.
- Macros and field codes. Anything that calculates or updates — a date field, a cross-reference, a page-count formula — is frozen at its current value.
- Linked images that live outside the document. Embedded images convert; linked ones may not resolve.
Page size travels with the file
The PDF inherits whatever page size the Word document specified, and that setting is more often wrong than people expect. A document created from a US template is Letter (8.5 × 11in); most of the world prints A4 (8.27 × 11.7in). The difference is small enough to look fine on screen and obvious once printed — wrong margins, or content shifted down the page.
Worth checking in Word before converting, because once the PDF exists the page size is fixed. Layout › Size is where it lives.
Compare the page count in the PDF against the page count in Word. If they match, the font substitution worked and your line breaks are where you left them. If the PDF gained a page, something in the document used a font with no metric-compatible substitute — usually a decorative or downloaded one — and the text has reflowed. Swapping that font for a common one and re-converting fixes it.