Convert a Word assignment to PDF

Universities and online courses often ask for essays and reports as PDF so the layout can't shift and markers can annotate them.

Word to PDF reads your document's paragraphs, headings, bold and italic text, lists, tables and page breaks and writes them onto US Letter pages in order.

Example: a 2,000-word essay with headings, a bulleted list and a references table. Converting it gives a PDF with the same headings, list and table, in reading order, ready to upload. If your tutor requires a specific font or footer page numbers, export from Word itself instead. Always open the PDF you are about to submit, scroll to the last page and confirm nothing is missing, because the uploaded file is what markers will see.

Check your course's formatting rules before you submit. Pictures, charts, text boxes, headers, footers and exact fonts are not carried over yet, so assignments that depend on figures, page numbers in the footer or a required font should be exported from Word or Google Docs directly (File, Save As or Download, PDF). For text-and-table assignments, Convertora gives a clean, readable PDF from any device.

Open Word to PDF

Step by step

  1. Save your work as .docx.
  2. Sign in, open Word to PDF and add the file.
  3. Convert and download the PDF.
  4. Read through the PDF fully before uploading it to the portal.

Tips

  • Older .doc files are refused with instructions; save as .docx first.
  • Need to add a cover sheet PDF? Combine them with Merge PDF.
  • Keep the .docx in case you need to make corrections.

Questions

Are images included?
Not yet. Text, headings, lists and tables are.
What page size is used?
US Letter.
Is my assignment stored?
The input is converted in memory, not stored. The PDF is stored privately for download and becomes eligible for cleanup after an hour; deletion runs on later submissions.

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