Convert Word to PDF without opening each file
Saving one document as a PDF is easy. Converting Word to PDF for sixty contracts, a term's worth of handouts or an archive of old DOC files is not, and the usual answers are a macro, a PowerShell script or uploading the lot to a website.
Document Converter takes the folder instead. Drop it on the window, or use Add folder, and every Word document, RTF, text, Markdown or HTML file inside it and in the folders beneath it joins the list, each with its size. Word's temporary ~$ lock files are left out. Pick PDF under Convert to and press Convert all.
The headline keeps count as it goes, such as Converting 12 of 60, and you can press Stop at any point. It brings its own document engine, so no word processor has to be installed.
How to batch convert DOCX to PDF
Four steps take a mixed folder to a set of PDFs:
- Click Add folder, or drag the folder onto the Documents list.
- Choose PDF in the Convert to menu.
- In Settings, set Save converted files to Next to the originals, or to In one folder and press Choose… to pick it.
- Press Convert all. When the batch ends, click the output tray to open the output folder.
Combine Word documents into one PDF
Sometimes the goal is one file, not sixty. With PDF selected, switch on Combine into one PDF and the batch is joined in list order into a single document that takes its name from the source folder, and the headline reports its total page count when it is done. It is a quick way to send a stack of chapters, invoices or minutes as one attachment.
Leave the switch off and each document becomes its own PDF beside, or apart from, the original.
Combine is offered only while PDF is the target, since the merged result is always a PDF. The rest of the options stay the same, so you can still choose whether it lands beside the source files or in a folder of your own.
Markdown to PDF, DOC to DOCX and other conversions
PDF is the common target, not the only one. The same list can go out as ODT, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOT, DOC, RTF, HTML, XML, Markdown or plain text, which covers jobs such as moving legacy DOC files to DOCX, handing an ODT to someone on another office suite, or turning Markdown notes into a PDF to print.
Choose JPEG pages or PNG pages and every page becomes a separate picture, useful for slides, previews or posting a page online. Inputs of different types can be mixed, so a folder of DOCX, RTF and HTML files converts in a single pass.
