Word to Markdown Broke Your Tables or Bloated the File? What Converts Cleanly
Why a Word to Markdown conversion turns a small .docx into megabytes of base64, why tables split, shift or stay as HTML, and the fixes for each, from a real test file.
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Learn how to convert documents between formats with our comprehensive guides. From Word to PDF, Excel to CSV, and everything in between - we cover the best free tools and methods.
PDF to Word Formatting Messed Up? A Cleanup Checklist
A PDF stores where text sits, not which lines form a paragraph, so converted Word files fill up with text boxes, section breaks and fixed spacing. A printable checklist for before and after you convert.
Extract Images From PDF Not Working? Vector Art, Scans and Fixes
An image extractor finds nothing because most charts and logos in a PDF are drawn as vector shapes, not stored as pictures. Five ways to get them out, compared.
PNG to JPG Turned the Transparent Background Black? Why, and How to Get White
A transparent PNG saved as JPG comes out with a black (or stranger) background. Our logs, six test conversions and the PNG spec explain why, and how to get white instead.
EPUB to PDF Ruins the Layout? Why It Happens and What to Set
An EPUB has no pages, so every EPUB to PDF converter has to invent them. Here's why the layout breaks, and the page size, margin, font and cover settings that fix it.
Markdown to PDF Breaks Your Tables and Code Blocks: What Survives and How to Fix It
The preview looks right and the PDF doesn't. That's two Markdown parsers disagreeing. Here's what happens to tables, fenced code, nested lists, task lists, headings and images when Markdown goes to PDF, and the small edits that fix each one.
WhatsApp Voice Note to MP3: A Checklist for Getting It Off Your Phone
WhatsApp voice notes are Opus audio in an Ogg file, which is why so many players and upload forms refuse them. This checklist covers finding the file on Android and iPhone, converting a WhatsApp voice note to MP3, and keeping the original safe.
Search Text in Multiple PDF Files: Why Windows and Mac Search Miss Half of Them
Windows Explorer and Spotlight find PDF files, not the page a word sits on, and they skip scans without a word. Five ways to search text in multiple PDF files compared, with what each one shows you.
Split a Scanned PDF Into Separate Documents: Why Blank Pages Work and When They Fail
You fed forty documents through the scanner in one go and got one enormous PDF back. Blank separator sheets are the cheapest way to cut it apart again, as long as you know what a splitter counts as blank and which scanner settings quietly break the trick.
Extract PDF Form Data to Excel Without Retyping Every Form
A folder of filled PDF forms and a spreadsheet to fill. If the forms are fillable, every answer is already stored as a named field, and you can pull them all into one sheet. Here's how, plus what stops it working.
Save Email as PDF for HR or Court: What Survives and What Gets Lost
HR wants the email as a PDF. So does your lawyer, or the tribunal portal. A PDF is fine for reading, but it drops the parts of an email that prove where it came from. Here's what an EML file holds, what a converted PDF keeps and loses, and how to hand over both without weakening your case.
Word to PDF Changed Your Fonts: Why Calibri Becomes Carlito
The font name in your PDF is different and your pages didn't move. That combination is deliberate. Here is the actual substitution table from our conversion server, which swaps preserve pagination, why Aptos is the version of this problem that's about to get common, and how to embed fonts so it stops happening.