Hello!
I was wondering if anyone could please suggest some proper software to convert Word documents (.docx) into PDF files? I have a report that is due soon and I simply cannot get it to convert without something going wrong.


Certainly using MS Office 2010 itself to create a PDF isn't cutting it. Most commonly it's the equations (I've used Equation Editor a lot) that don't convert nice at all. Same goes for the images (charts etc.) that may suffer much loss of quality.
So, any suggestions? Would be nice if something free could do the trick quickly and without trouble. And I have an upcoming thesis too, which I'd like to convert to PDF. Would hate it if all the equations are a mess.

Thanks in advance! You can make my day!

In Word 2010, the built-in Save As PDF should work just fine, assuming that you choose to "Optimize for" "Standard (publishing online and printing)" in the Save As dialog box (you'll see the option once you have selected PDF for file type).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

So why is it that formulas appearing normally in Word


...get deformed in PDF format


This is not acceptable.

I see what your screen shot shows, but I can't reproduce it when converting a Word document to PDF. Maybe the font is damaged in your installation.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Nevermind, I already got it sorted using Nitro PDF Creator. I guess Word simply couldn't handle converting that many Equation formulas.