Microsoft Office installed on your computer includes “Save as PDF”. If you do not, then perhaps you trust Microsoft, and could considering using Microsoft Office Online, which has the same capabilities.Īnother way to protect yourself, should you feel at all uncomfortable with uploading your document, is to look for a solution that runs on your PC instead.Īssuming your convert-to-PDF scenario, there are a couple of options: You can save the document to any of several different formats, including PDF.Īll this presupposes that you trust Google. While it’s intended that you can then edit the file using Google Docs, there’s nothing that says you must. You can upload a Word document to Google Drive and convert it there. One service that provides the specific function you asked about is Google. If the answer is no, you know to look for alternatives. You simply need to answer the question, “Do I trust them?” If, of course, you recognize the company involved, then no research is needed. That may be enough to make you feel comfortable, or it may be information to use for additional online research on the company or owner. If you were considering using a service provided at, you might look that up first to see who’s behind it. One way to start might be to do a “whois” lookup on the domain on which the service is provided. The very short version is that if it’s a company you’ve never heard of, you might want to do some research before blindly uploading your sensitive documents. Fortunately, there are also alternatives. There are good services and bad services. 
It depends on who is providing the service and how sensitive you feel your documents are.
The short answer is my most common answer: it depends.
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