How to save each page as separate pdf files in a Word document?

While using Microsoft Word document, you can save each page as separate pdf files one by one with its build-in Save As function. However, if there are hundreds of pages need to be split and saved as individual pdf files, how can you do? This article provides method for you to quickly solve this problem.

Save each page as separate pdf files in bulk with VBA code

Save each page as separate pdf files in bulk with VBA code

The below VBA code helps you to quickly save each page in a document as individual pdf files at the same time. Please do as follows.

1. Open the document you will save each page or specific pages as pdf files, then press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module, copy below VBA code into the Module window.

VBA code: Save each page as separate pdf files at the same time in a Word document

Sub SaveAsSeparatePDFs()
'Updated by Extendoffice 20180906
    Dim I As Long
    Dim xStr As String
    Dim xPathStr As Variant
    Dim xDictoryStr As String
    Dim xFileDlg As FileDialog
    Dim xStartPage, xEndPage As Long
    Dim xStartPageStr, xEndPageStr As String
    Set xFileDlg = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
    If xFileDlg.Show <> -1 Then
        MsgBox "Please chose a valid directory", vbInformation, "Kutools for Word"
        Exit Sub
    End If
    xPathStr = xFileDlg.SelectedItems(1)
    xStartPageStr = InputBox("Begin saving PDFs starting with page __? " & vbNewLine & "(ex: 1)", "Kutools for Word")
    xEndPageStr = InputBox("Save PDFs until page __?" & vbNewLine & "(ex: 7)", "Kutools for Word")
    If Not (IsNumeric(xStartPageStr) And IsNumeric(xEndPageStr)) Then
        MsgBox "The enterng start page and end page should be number format", vbInformation, "Kutools for Word"
        Exit Sub
    End If
    xStartPage = CInt(xStartPageStr)
    xEndPage = CInt(xEndPageStr)
    If xStartPage > xEndPage Then
        MsgBox "The start page number can't be larger than end page", vbInformation, "Kutools for Word"
        Exit Sub
    End If
    If xEndPage > ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyPages) Then
        xEndPage = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyPages)
    End If
    For I = xStartPage To xEndPage
        ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat xPathStr & "\Page_" & I & ".pdf", _
        wdExportFormatPDF, False, wdExportOptimizeForPrint, wdExportFromTo, I, I, wdExportDocumentWithMarkup, _
        False, False, wdExportCreateHeadingBookmarks, True, False, False
    Next
End Sub

3. Press the F5 key to run the code.

4. In the Browse window, select a folder to save the pdf files and click the OK button. See screenshot:

5. In the first Kutools for Word dialog box, enter the start page number of your document into the text box and click OK.

6. In the second Kutools for Word dialog box, enter the last page number of your document, then click OK. See screenshot:

Note: If you just want to save several continuously pages in document as separate pdf files such as page 4, 5 and 6, please enter 4 and 6 separately into the above two dialog boxes.

After running the code, please go to the specified folder you selected in step 4, you can see all pages are split and saved as individual pdf files as below screenshot shown.

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