Translate a .docx into 26 languages and get a Word document back — same fonts, same tables, same images, same page setup. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
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☁️ Only the wording is sent — your Word (.docx) is opened and rewritten in this browser tab. The text travels to our translation service and back; the file itself is never uploaded, and nothing is stored on either leg. Why FileHugger
The usual way to translate a Word document destroys it: paste into a translator, paste back, and the styles, tables, headers and numbering are gone. This does not go through a text box. A .docx is a ZIP of XML, so the wording is replaced inside the file and everything else is carried across byte for byte — the same fonts, the same table borders, the same logo in the header, the same page size. The document you get back is the document you sent, in another language, and it is still editable.
A .docx file is not one document but a ZIP archive of XML parts: the text in one file, the styles in another, the images stored whole alongside them. That structure is what makes a Word document editable by a program without opening Word — the wording can be replaced while the styles, tables, headers, numbering and pictures are carried over byte for byte.
The usual way to translate a Word document is to select all, paste into a translation box, copy the result and paste it back. What comes back is text. The table borders are gone, the heading styles are gone, the logo in the header is gone, the numbered list restarts at one, and the twenty minutes you thought you were saving turn into an hour of rebuilding.
That happens because the clipboard only carries text. This does not use the clipboard, or a text box, or a converter. A .docx file is a ZIP archive of XML parts — the words in one part, the styles in another, the images stored whole beside them — and the wording is replaced inside the archive. Everything else is written back exactly as it arrived, because it is the same bytes going out that came in.
Styles, tables, images, headers, footers, page size, margins, numbering, footnotes, endnotes and every embedded object survive, and not by careful handling — they are never opened. The exception is formatting applied to part of a sentence. If half a sentence was bold, the translated sentence takes the formatting of the run it started in, because a translation does not divide at the same words the original did: “the final invoice” has three words in English and may have two or four in the target language, with the emphasis falling somewhere new. Whole-paragraph and whole-cell formatting, which is how nearly every real document is formatted, is unaffected.
Word stores a paragraph as a series of runs, and it starts a new one every time anything changes — a bold word, a spelling correction, sometimes nothing visible at all. A single sentence is routinely three or four separate pieces inside the file. Translating each piece on its own gives three unrelated fragments, which is exactly the tell-tale word salad that cheap document translators produce. Here the runs of a paragraph are joined back into a sentence first, translated whole, and written back. A tab or a line break ends a paragraph for this purpose, so the two sides of “Name:⇥ Jane Okafor” stay in their own columns instead of being merged into one phrase.
Word records a language on every run, and a document still labelled English opens with a red underline beneath every translated word. The language is reset to the one you translated into, and the stale spell-check marks left over from the original are cleared out, so the document opens looking like a document rather than a mistake.
This accepts .docx and only .docx. The old binary .doc is a completely different format that cannot be edited in place; if you have one, open it in Word or an office suite and save it as .docx first. Text inside charts and SmartArt is not translated, because it lives in drawing parts this tool does not open. And it is machine translation: full sentences come out well, one- and two-word headings often do not, and any block whose numbers came back different from the numbers that went in keeps its original wording rather than publishing a figure that changed. The result tells you how many did.
Yes — there is no sign-up, payment or watermark. Server-processed tools use the published file-size, duration and fair-use limits so jobs remain available to everyone; those are technical safeguards, not a paid tier.
Yes. Drop in as many as you like and each is translated in sequence with its own progress status, then downloaded individually or all together as a ZIP. Long files are sent for translation in batches, so a stack of large documents can reach the fair-use ceiling — if it does, the message says so and waiting a few minutes is all it takes.
Yes — this tool needs a full office engine, so your file is sent to our server over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, converted there, and deleted immediately after the PDF is delivered. It is never read for any other purpose, never shared, and never stored. Files up to 50 MB are accepted.
Layout, styles, tables, images, headers, footers and numbering survive, because they are never touched — only the text is replaced. One thing does not: formatting applied to part of a sentence. If half a sentence was bold, the translated sentence takes the formatting of the run that started it, because a translation does not divide at the same words the original did. Whole-paragraph styling, which is how nearly all documents are formatted, is unaffected. The document language is also reset so your spell checker stops underlining every word.
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