Turn a .docx into a PDF that still looks like your document.

Yes. Vertor renders your document with the same engine Word itself uses to print, so fonts, tables, headers, page breaks and images come out matching the original layout — rather than a simplified parser guessing at the result. See what actually happens during conversion for the longer explanation.

No. Your file is processed in memory, converted, and permanently deleted within minutes. Only anonymous usage counts are kept, never the document itself.

No sign-up is required. Upload a .docx file and download the PDF.

25 MB per document, which covers the vast majority of Word files, including ones with embedded images.

Because a .docx can look different depending on whose computer opens it — a missing font or a different Word version can quietly reflow text or shift page breaks. A PDF fixes every element at an exact position, so what you see is genuinely what everyone else sees too. That's why it's the safer default for anything meant to be final: a contract, an invoice, a finished report, a resume. We go into this in more detail in PDF vs Word: why PDF wins for sharing.

This converter is built for the modern .docx format (Word 2007 and later); the upload box won't accept an older binary .doc file directly. If you're starting from a .doc, open it in Word — or a free alternative like LibreOffice — and use "Save As" to resave it as .docx first. That takes a few seconds and doesn't touch the content of the document. Our guide to what's actually inside a Word document explains why the two formats behave differently under the hood.

In the large majority of documents, yes — tables, embedded images, headers, footers and page numbers are all part of the layout the converter reads and reproduces, not something bolted on afterward. The rare exceptions tend to be specific: an unusual nested table, a font that isn't a standard system font, or a document that was built with an inconsistent structure in an older or buggy version of Word. If something does come out looking off, our formatting troubleshooting guide walks through the usual causes and how to fix them before reconverting.

A font that isn't available gets swapped for the closest visual match rather than left blank, but a substitution can have slightly different character widths — which can nudge where lines break and, occasionally, how many pages the document runs to. Sticking to widely available fonts, or embedding fonts directly in the .docx (an option in Word's save settings), is the most reliable way to guarantee an exact match. More on this in our guide to common conversion problems and how to fix them.

Yes. If you or whoever you send the file to needs to edit it again later, our PDF to Word converter handles the reverse direction — upload the PDF and get back a genuine, editable .docx, not an image of the page pasted into a document. Converting a fixed-layout PDF back into something editable is a different problem than the other way round, which is why it's a separate tool.

Yes. The converter runs entirely in your browser, so it works on a phone or tablet the same way it does on a laptop — tap "browse your files" instead of dragging and dropping, and your device's normal file picker opens, including anything saved to a cloud storage app you have installed. The 25 MB limit and everything else about the conversion is identical regardless of device.

There's no account, so there's no per-user quota tracked against one. Ordinary use — converting a handful of documents — won't come close to any limit. The one thing we do watch for is automated or bulk traffic hitting the service in a way that would slow things down for everyone else.

It's completely normal for the numbers not to match — PDF and .docx store content differently under the hood, so a size change in either direction isn't a sign anything went wrong. PDFs often embed fonts directly in the file so they look identical on any device, which .docx doesn't need to do, and documents with a lot of images tend to see the biggest jump. If your PDF comes out surprisingly large, our guide on why your PDF is huge (and how to shrink it) explains exactly where that extra size comes from.

Converting to PDF is a good moment to check this, because the conversion reflects the document as currently displayed — accepted or rejected changes as they stand — not the full edit history. Comments and tracked-changes markup aren't something you want to carry into a document you're sharing outside your team, so it's worth using Word's "Accept All Changes" and clearing comments before converting anything that's been through a few rounds of edits. Our guide to document security basics covers what else can be hiding in a document's metadata.