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Word, Excel & PowerPoint converters

Convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to PDF — and back again — without installing anything. Free, private and no sign-up required.

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Converting between Office formats and PDF

Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are editable documents whose appearance depends on the machine opening them — the fonts installed, the application version, the screen. PDF is the opposite: a fixed rendering that looks identical everywhere and cannot be changed by accident.

Converting to PDF is what you do when a document is finished and needs to be sent, printed, submitted or archived. Converting back from PDF is what you do when the source file is gone and you need to work on the content again.

What converting back from PDF can recover

It is worth setting expectations honestly, because this is where converters get a bad reputation. A PDF does not store paragraphs, styles, table objects or slide layouts. It stores glyphs and graphics at fixed coordinates, and converting back means inferring the structure from that arrangement.

Text-led documents — reports, letters, contracts, CVs — convert well and are immediately editable. Complex, heavily designed layouts come back needing a tidy-up. Scanned pages recover nothing at all without OCR first, because there are no characters in the file to find.

How these conversions are processed

High-fidelity Office conversion needs a document engine that browsers cannot run, so unlike the PDF and media tools on this site, these six converters do send your file to a server. It travels over an encrypted connection, is converted, is returned to you, and is not stored or shared afterwards.

We would rather state that plainly than let a site-wide privacy claim cover a tool it does not apply to. If a document must never leave your machine, export it to PDF from a local Office application instead — and use the PDF tools here, which genuinely transmit nothing, for everything afterwards.

Frequently asked questions

Are the office tools free?

Yes. Every office tool is free to use with no sign-up, no page limits and no watermark on the output.

Which office files can I convert?

You can convert Word (DOC, DOCX), Excel (XLS, XLSX, CSV) and PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX) files to PDF, and convert PDFs back into editable Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.

Will my formatting be preserved?

Yes. Conversions keep fonts, images, tables and layout so the result matches your original document as closely as possible.

Are my documents kept private?

Your files are processed securely for the conversion and are never stored or shared.