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How-to: Convert Your Word Document to a PDF File

Adobe’s PDF is a highly popular document format. Portability and printability are two of the most important aspects of PDF that make it popular. In this short article, let me explain to you how you can convert a Word document, created with Microsoft Word (any version) into the PDF format.

Step 1: First of all, download and install an application called SodaPDF. This is the best PDF creation software in the world. It can not only convert documents from Word format, but also from almost three hundred other formats, including HTML, PPT, RTF, TXT, etc.

Step 2: Open SodaPDF application, and click on the top, ‘Create and Convert’ tab. Here you have several different options to create PDF documents from. The option you need to select here is ‘Create from Any File’.

selecting the conversion option

Step 3: Browse to the document that you want to convert. You can browse any of those three hundred formats, which include the Word documents as well. All different versions of MS Word are supported by SodaPDF, and hence it is pretty easy.

browsing to the file you want to convert

Step 4: As soon as you click ‘Open’, your Word document will be changed to a PDF document and be displayed within SodaPDF interface. As shown here.

viewing the converted PDF document

SodaPDF retains the exact formatting, fonts, styles, etc., of the Word document unlike some other applications. Hence, you will be able to get the document converted exactly as you want it. With the help of the editor, you can further add content to the document or simply print it out as such.

With this application, you can do almost everything involving PDF documents. You can convert a PDF document into Word format or one of the other many supported formats; you can secure the document with digital signature; and you can use the OCR function to convert an image that involves text into actual text in a PDF file.

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