Word to PDF Converter
Preview a .docx page by page and save it as a PDF with real, selectable text.
Preview
In the print dialog that opens:
- Set Destination (or Printer) to Save as PDF — on Windows you can also pick Microsoft Print to PDF.
- Keep Margins on Default or None and Scale at 100%: the document’s own margins are already on the page.
- On iPhone or iPad, use the share button in the print screen and choose Save to Files.
About the Word to PDF Converter
Choose a Word document (.docx) and see it laid out page by page — page size and margins, headers and footers, tables, pictures, lists and footnotes. Then press Save as PDF and pick Save as PDF in the print dialog. Because the browser itself creates the PDF from real text, the words stay text — not a picture — in any script your device can display, including Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Chinese.
The document is opened inside your browser and never uploaded. It is displayed in an isolated frame that cannot run scripts or load anything from the internet, so a document cannot run code on your computer or report that it was opened.
How to use it
- Drop a
.docxfile onto the box above, or tap Choose a Word document. - Check the preview. Untick Headers and footers or Footnotes and endnotes if you don’t want them, or turn off Break pages where Word last did to let the browser decide page breaks.
- Press Save as PDF. In the print dialog set the destination to Save as PDF (or Microsoft Print to PDF on Windows), keep margins on Default or None and scale at 100%.
- Choose where to save the file. Its name is taken from the Word document.
Examples
Section 1: A4 portrait, 3 pages · Section 2: A4 landscape table, 1 page
A 4-page PDF: three portrait A4 pages followed by one landscape A4 page
Each section keeps its own page size, so landscape pages stay landscape in the PDF.
Common uses
- Sending a CV, cover letter or invoice as PDF when Word is not installed (for example on a Chromebook or a shared computer).
- Fixing the look of a document before emailing it, so it prints the same everywhere.
- Making a PDF of a document that contains Indian-language text, which is kept as text rather than turned into pictures.
How the conversion works
A .docx file is a ZIP archive of XML files (Office Open XML, ECMA-376). The open-source docx-preview library turns that XML into a web page — one block per page, at the page size and margins stored in the document — and your browser’s built-in PDF printer writes the PDF. Fonts are embedded by the browser, so the PDF looks the same on every device.
Before anything is displayed, the archive is checked: every part is unpacked with a hard size limit, so a “zip bomb” disguised as a document is rejected instead of freezing your browser.
Where page breaks come from
Word does not store page numbers for text — it lays pages out each time a document opens. When it saves, it records where the last layout broke pages, and this tool breaks pages at those markers (and at manual page breaks and section breaks). Documents that were never saved by Word, or whose fonts differ on your device, may break pages slightly differently; a page that runs long continues on the next PDF page.
Limitations
- Fonts that are not installed on your device are replaced with similar ones (Calibri with Carlito or another sans-serif, Cambria with Caladea or another serif), which can move line and page breaks.
- SmartArt, charts, equations, text boxes and wrapped pictures may shift or look simpler than in Word; EMF/WMF pictures may not display.
- Legacy Word 97–2003
.docfiles, password-protected documents,.odtand.rtfare not supported — save them as.docxfirst. - Tracked changes are shown as if they were accepted — inserted text appears as normal text and deleted text is left out, without change marks (the tool warns you when a document has them). Comments, form fields and macros are not shown.
- The PDF is made by your browser’s print function, so the exact options depend on the browser; on iPhone and iPad it is saved from the print screen’s share menu.
Privacy
Everything happens in your browser. What you enter or open here is not uploaded or stored by MySmartCoPilot.
Frequently asked questions
Is my document uploaded?
No. The file is read and laid out in your browser, and the PDF is written by your browser on your device. Nothing is sent to a server.
Will the text in the PDF be selectable?
Yes. The browser writes the text as text (not as a picture), so you can select, copy and search it. With complex scripts such as Hindi or Tamil, some PDF viewers copy conjunct letters imperfectly, because the PDF stores the shaped letter forms; the text still displays and prints correctly.
Why do some lines or pages break differently than in Word?
Usually because a font used in the document is not installed on your device and a look-alike with slightly different widths is used. Installing the font, or saving the document with fonts embedded in Word, makes the result closer.
Can I convert an old .doc file?
Not directly. Open it in Word, LibreOffice Writer or Google Docs and save it as Word Document (.docx), then convert that file here.
The print dialog adds a date and web address at the top. How do I remove them?
Turn off Headers and footers in the browser’s print dialog (under More settings in Chrome and Edge). The document’s own headers and footers are part of the page and stay.