How to add a PDF into a Word Document Appendix

The other day I heard someone had spent literally hours on an essay, not writing great content, that had already been done, but adding in multiple PDF documents into the Appendix.

The method they had chosen, was to screen individual pages from a PDF document and then paste them individually into the appendices of their Word Document, sometimes lining them up where the screen print had only captured part of the page. As someone who not a great fan of inefficiency, I quickly sought and trialed a much quicker to help them claim back those wasted hours in future.

The Quick Way to Add PDFs to your Word Document

1. Set up your Word Doc Appendix with your titles as you normally would be leave the pages blank where you want the PDFs to go. Remember after each appendix to add a page break to take you onto a fresh page
2. Turn your PDF into images. You don’t need to pay money for software to do this, there are plenty of online tools to use, just google “Convert PDF to JPG”. I personally used pdf2jpg.net the last time I converted a PDF.
3. Now all you have to do is insert them into document. Select the relevant page you want to insert the PDF (now a JPG) and click “insert” > “pictures”
4. A window will pop up asking you to select your images. Each page of your PDF file will have been saved as a separate image, so select an individual image of a page or all the pages and insert them

Voila, a job that once took hours, now done in minutes!