In this article, we demonstrate how to convert a word document into a pdf. There are cases where it is necessary to convert a word document into pdf. For instance, word documents require MS Word installed on your android or iOS device or desktop for them to be opened. Whereas a pdf document can be opened by your browser (Google’s chromium, Microsoft’s edge, Mozilla’s firefox) on the desktop or through google drive on some mobile devices. The point I am making here is pdf documents are easier to open than word documents by most people. And most people like easy!
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Reasons for conversion of word documents to pdfs:
a) PDFs always hold their formatting, fonts, and other characteristics no matter how they’re opened. No other widely accepted file extensions hold their formatting as PDFs do.
b) Apple products may struggle to open Microsoft Word documents. Unlike .docx files, PDFs are accepted by all computers, smartphones, and other devices.
c) Microsoft Word Documents do not Have Great Security
d) Pdfs take up less space than word documents.
How to convert a word document into pdf:
Firstly; open google drive with your desktop or mobile device.
Tap the new button and upload your word document by choosing file upload. Look for the location of the word document file and upload it.
Afterward, open the word document inside google drive. It will be opened as a google doc.
Click on file. Then, select download.
Select Pdf document and your word document will be downloaded as a pdf file.
The downloaded file has .pdf extension
How to convert a pdf document to a word document
Firstly; upload your pdf document to google drive.
Secondly; locate the uploaded pdf file in your drive and double-tap to open it.
The option of “open with google docs” is placed up. Select it and your pdf file will be opened with google docs.
Lastly; google docs is where you can download your pdf file as a word document.
That is how you can convert a word document to pdf and vice versa.