Word documents are made for editing; PDFs are made for sending. A .docx file opened on a different computer — or even a different version of Word — can reflow, swap fonts, and shift page breaks, which is why CVs, invoices, and official letters are expected as PDFs: a PDF looks identical everywhere, and nobody can casually edit it.
This converter parses your .docx directly in the browser and rebuilds it as a PDF, preserving the document structure that matters: headings, bold and italic text, lists, and tables. You choose the page size and margins, and the preview shows the result before you commit — useful for catching layout surprises before a document goes out.
The conventional route to this conversion is either owning Microsoft Word, or uploading your document to a converter site and hoping their copy of it is deleted afterwards. CVs and letters are full of personal information — addresses, phone numbers, employment history — so the fact that this conversion happens entirely on your device is not a technicality. Nothing you convert here is seen, stored, or transmitted by anyone.
The structural formatting that documents rely on — headings, bold, italic, lists, and tables — is preserved. Extremely elaborate layouts with text boxes, embedded charts, or unusual fonts may render more simply than in Word, so check the preview; for typical letters, CVs, and reports the conversion is faithful.
Only .docx, the format every version of Word since 2007 uses by default. If you have an old .doc file, open it in Word, LibreOffice, or Google Docs and save it as .docx first, then convert.
A PDF freezes your layout so it displays identically everywhere, strips the editing affordances that let anyone alter your document, and avoids exposing tracked changes or comments hiding in the .docx. For anything official — applications, invoices, letters — PDF is the expected format.
No. The .docx is parsed and the PDF is generated by JavaScript running in your browser. Your document, and everything in it, stays on your device throughout.
Yes — pick A4 or Letter and adjust margins before converting. A4 is standard in most of the world; Letter is the norm in North America. If your document was laid out for one size, matching it avoids awkward page breaks.