How to convert DOCX to PDF
You have just received a very important file in DOCX format via email and a colleague of yours asked you to send it to him immediately, however, having the foresight to convert it to PDF format. However, if in front of the request made by your colleague you have begun to lead you like How? PDF? What am I supposed to do now? then know that I have good, indeed excellent news to give you: you have landed on the right guide. In fact, in the following lines I will illustrate everything that can be done to convert DOCX to PDF in a simple and fast way.
How do you say? Don’t you have any intention of installing new programs on your computer? But no, don’t worry… to convert DOCX to PDF it is not necessary. In fact, to succeed in the enterprise you just need to resort to the use of some special online services, those that I will indicate in the following lines and which in my opinion are among the best of their kind.
So if you are really willing to find out what it is necessary to do in order to convert DOCX to PDF, I invite you to take a few minutes of free time, get comfortable and concentrate on reading the following information. We bet you’ll eventually be ready to loudly claim that converting DOX to PDF was actually a breeze?
CloudConvert
The first online resource that I suggest you take advantage of to be able to convert DOCX to PDF is CloudConvert. It is a Web service able not only to act on files in DOCX format but also to convert PDF documents, videos, images, songs, ebooks and all documents created with Microsoft Office or LibreOffice. The service is extremely fast in processing data and has no annoying upload limits. CloudConvert also allows you to convert multiple files at once and merge the pages of two or more Word files into one PDF. What more could you want?
If you think this solution might interest you, the first thing you need to do in order to convert DOX to PDF is to click here so that you can immediately connect to the main page of the service. Then click on the Select files button and select the document or documents in DOCX format to convert to PDF directly from the computer currently in use. You can optionally select the DOCX files on which to act also from a specific URL, from Dropbox, from Google Drive, from OneDrive or from Box simply by pressing the arrow-shaped icon facing down placed next to the Select files button and choosing then the reference solution.
After carrying out these steps, presses the Start conversion button , wait for the files to be converted and download the final PDFs by clicking on the download button that appears next to their names. If necessary, before clicking on the Start conversion button, you can check the Notify me when it is finished box to receive a specific notification when the procedure by which to convert DOCX to PDF is completed and / or you can check the Save file to my box and select Dropbox , Google Drive , OneDrive or Box to save the transformed file on one of the cloud storage services in your possession and compatible with the service.
When the conversion procedure is completed you will then see the green download button appear . Click on it to download the converted PDF document that was just returned to your computer.
If you wish, before starting the procedure by which to convert DOCX to PDF you can also merge multiple files into a single document. To do this, select the DOCX files you want to act on, expand the drop-down menu merge all into one located at the bottom right and select the PDF item from the latter. Then arrange the DOCX file icons in the order you want to be respected in the output document.
Online2PDF
If you are still looking for a solution to be able to convert DOCX to PDF, I invite you not to throw the check mark yet and take a look at Online2PDF . This is an excellent web service dedicated solely to editing and converting PDF documents. You can use this service to convert DOCX to PDF and also to merge two or more Word documents into one PDF file. The service is totally free but has upload restrictions. In fact, it is not possible to process more than 20 documents simultaneously and it is not possible to upload files larger than 50MB (100MB for multiple uploads).
Having said that, if you are interested in finding out what it is necessary to do in order to convert DOCX to PDF the first operation you need to do is to click here so that you can immediately connect to the main web page of Onlne2PDF. Then click on the Select files button and choose the documents to be processed. Then expand the drop-down menu at the bottom and choose whether to create a single PDF by selecting the Standard Conversion item or whether to convert Word files separately by selecting the item Create a new PDF file for each page item .
You can optionally make changes to the file to be converted using the Compression , View , Protection , Header / Footer and Layout buttons located next to the Preferences item : present at the bottom.
Finally, press the Convert button and wait for your documents to be converted first and then downloaded to your PC. Once the process is complete, the download of the document will start automatically.
Alternatives to online services
If it is not possible for you to convert DOCX to PDF using the online services I have just reported, I want to offer you some methods, so to speak, “traditional” that you can appeal to to run for cover.
In this regard, I invite you to read my guide on how to convert a Word file to PDF , in which I told you in detail about the functions to export to PDF of Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, and my guide on how to convert to PDF, in where I dealt with the virtual printers available for Windows and Mac OS X.