Word to Markdown

Choose or drop a Word document and it is converted to Markdown without leaving your browser. The document is unzipped and read locally, which is worth knowing if the file is a contract, a draft or anything else you would rather not hand to a website.

What carries over cleanly: Heading 1 through Heading 6 styles, paragraphs, bold and italic, bulleted and numbered lists including nesting, hyperlinks, simple tables and footnote text. The converter reads Word's styles, so a heading that was styled as Heading 2 becomes ##, while a line that was merely made big and bold stays an ordinary paragraph.

What does not survive: page layout, columns, text boxes, headers and footers, comments, tracked changes, merged table cells, embedded images, equations and fonts or colors of any kind. Markdown has no vocabulary for most of these. Documents written as structured text convert almost perfectly; documents designed as a page need a cleanup pass.

How it works

1. Drop a .docx file onto the panel, or click Choose a file. Older .doc files are not supported; open one in Word and save it as .docx first.
2. The conversion runs on your device and the Markdown appears on the right. Use Preview to check headings and tables at a glance.
3. Copy the Markdown, download it as a .md file, or open it in the editor to fix up anything that needed a human.

Frequently asked questions