How to merge PDF files on Windows 10 and 11

Can Windows merge PDFs on its own?

Not directly. Microsoft Edge opens, annotates and prints PDFs, and Microsoft Print to PDF saves a document as a PDF, but neither can join existing PDFs into one file.

The free options are a browser-based merger such as Mergevanta, or desktop software. Combining files in Adobe Acrobat requires a paid Acrobat subscription — the free Acrobat Reader can't do it.

How to merge PDFs on Windows with Mergevanta

1. 1Open Microsoft Edge, Chrome or Firefox and go to Mergevanta's Merge PDF page.
2. 2Select your PDFs in File Explorer and drag them onto the drop zone — or click the drop zone to browse, holding Ctrl to pick several files.
3. 3Drag the file cards into the order you want.
4. 4Click Merge, then Download. The PDF is saved to your Downloads folder.

Built-in trick: combine images into one PDF

Windows can't merge PDFs, but it can turn several pictures into one PDF with Microsoft Print to PDF:

1. 1In File Explorer, select the images you want, holding Ctrl to choose several.
2. 2Right-click the selection and choose Print. On Windows 11, choose Show more options first if Print isn't listed.
3. 3Set the printer to Microsoft Print to PDF, choose a layout and click Print.
4. 4Name the file and save it.

For control over page size, margins and order, use Mergevanta's JPG to PDF tool instead.

Ways to merge files on Windows