Choose an SVG and download an EMF (Enhanced Metafile): the same shapes as filled and stroked vector paths, at the size the SVG states, for Word, PowerPoint and other Windows programs.

Free, no account. The file is read by code running in your browser. It is not uploaded, and nothing about it is stored.

How to convert an SVG to EMF

Choose the SVG, drop it on the box, or paste SVG code.
Compare the preview with your drawing, and read the notes beside it on anything that was changed or left out.
Download the EMF. To place it at another size, pick a width first, or type one under Fine-tune: the height follows.
In Word or PowerPoint on Windows, choose Insert, Pictures, This Device and pick the file.

What an EMF is, and when you need one

EMF stands for Enhanced Metafile. It is the vector picture format built into Windows since the early 1990s: a list of the drawing commands Windows itself uses, saved in a file. Because the commands are replayed at whatever size is asked for, an EMF stays sharp when it is stretched or printed, where a PNG of the same drawing turns soft.

Word and PowerPoint in Microsoft 365, and from Office 2016 with updates, insert SVG files directly, so there you may not need an EMF at all. It is the format to use with Office 2013 and earlier, which do not read SVG, and with other Windows programs that accept EMF but not SVG. It is also the format PowerPoint on Windows can take apart: select the picture, ungroup it, agree to convert it to a drawing object, and each path becomes a shape you can recolour.

What the file holds

A header with the size. The frame of the picture is stated in hundredths of a millimetre, and that is what Word reads to place it. A drawing of 120 × 80 mm has a frame of 12,000 × 8,000.
Paths, not pixels. Each shape is a path record: straight lines stay lines, and Bézier curves are written as Bézier curves (POLYBEZIERTO), four points to a curve, not chopped into short lines. Circles, ellipses, arcs and rounded corners become Bézier curves that each turn 45° at most.
Fills as solid brushes, with the fill rule (alternate for even-odd, winding for non-zero), so a hole in a letter stays a hole.
Strokes as geometric pens: the width, flat, round or square ends, mitred, round or bevelled corners, the mitre limit as a whole number, and dashes of up to 16 lengths.
Clip paths made of shapes, applied with SELECTCLIPPATH. If anything reaches past the edge of the page, the whole picture is clipped to the page as well.
Nothing else. No bitmap, no fonts and no EMF+ records: only records of the original EMF format.

What changes, and what is left out

An EMF of this plain kind paints solid colour only. The notes beside the preview count each of the following in your file, and the preview shows the drawing as the EMF holds it.

Opacity. A see-through fill or stroke is written as the solid colour it makes over white: red at 50% becomes pink. The background itself stays empty, so the page or slide still shows around the shapes.
Gradients become the average colour of their stops. Pattern fills are dropped.
Text is left out unless it has been turned into outlines first (in Inkscape: Path, Object to Path).
Embedded and linked pictures, masks, filters such as blur and shadow, and arrowhead markers are not carried over.
Dash offset. A dashed line starts its pattern at the start of the path.
Stretched strokes. Where a transform scales a shape more one way than the other, its outline is drawn at one even width, the average of the two.

Size and precision

The picture arrives at the size the SVG gives itself: millimetres, centimetres and inches are taken as written, and pixels at 96 to the inch, so a 96 pixel square is 25.4 mm. The frame is rounded to a hundredth of a millimetre.

Coordinates inside an EMF are whole numbers. This tool uses one unit for a hundredth of a millimetre, 2,540 to the inch, so every point lands within 0.005 mm of its place in the SVG along each axis. That is far finer than a printer can show at the size given. If you plan to enlarge a small icon a great deal in your document, set the larger width here before you download, so the rounding is done at the final size.

The file is small: a 56 byte record for a pen, 24 for a brush, and 8 bytes for each point of a path. A logo of a few dozen shapes makes an EMF of a few kilobytes.

Questions

Can I edit the EMF in PowerPoint?

On Windows, yes. Select the picture, press Ctrl+Shift+G to ungroup it and agree to convert it to a Microsoft Office drawing object. The paths become ordinary shapes whose fill and outline you can change.

Should I use EMF or SVG in Word?

If your Word reads SVG (Microsoft 365, or Office 2016 and later with updates), the SVG keeps opacity and gradients, which an EMF does not. Use the EMF for Office 2013 and earlier, or when someone asks for one by name. The guide to SVG in Word covers both routes.

Does an EMF work on a Mac?

Poorly. macOS has no viewer for EMF, and Office on a Mac does not always draw one the way Office on Windows does. For a Mac, convert the SVG to PDF or insert the SVG itself.

Is the background transparent?

Yes. Only the shapes are painted, so whatever is behind the picture shows between them. What is lost is partial opacity inside a shape, which becomes a solid tint.

What is the difference between EMF and WMF?

WMF is the older 16-bit format from Windows 3. Its coordinates stop at 32,767 and it has no Bézier curves, so curves have to be cut into straight pieces. EMF replaced it with 32-bit coordinates and true curves, and it is what this page writes.

SVG to EMF converter