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Word to Markdown converter
Drop a Word document below and get clean Markdown, with the token count and what it costs to send. It is converted in your browser — the file never leaves your device.
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What a DOCX actually stores
Word is the best-case conversion on this site, and the reason is structural rather than lucky. A .docx is a zip of XML in which a heading is explicitly tagged as a heading, a list item as a list item, and a table as a table. The file records what things ARE, not merely how they looked.
Word is where most business writing actually lives: briefs, reports, specs, policies. Feeding one to a model as clean Markdown rather than as a wall of pasted text is the difference between it seeing your document structure and seeing an undifferentiated block.
What survives the conversion
Heading levels map exactly, because Word stores them as named styles rather than as font sizes to be guessed at. Bulleted and numbered lists keep their structure. Tables become Markdown pipe tables with their header row intact. Paragraph order is exact.
What does not
Images are dropped — Markdown cannot embed them and they are not text a model can read. Comments, tracked changes and footnotes are not included. Complex nested tables flatten, since Markdown tables have no concept of a cell containing another table.
Saying so plainly is deliberate. A converter that quietly drops half a document is worse than one that tells you which half, because you can work around a limit you know about.
Questions
Does it work with .doc as well as .docx?
Drop it and find out — the answer depends on what the file actually is rather than what it is called. A genuine Word 97-2003 .doc is a binary format this tool cannot read, and it will tell you so and point you at Save As .docx. But a great many files named .doc are not that: Word saved RTF under a .doc extension for years, and plenty of .docx files get renamed or mislabelled by exporters. Those are identified by their contents and converted normally.
Why not just support .doc directly?
Because the best version of that feature is advice. Recovering text from the old binary format is possible but yields text alone - no headings, no lists, no tables - and Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice will all re-save it as .docx for free, which converts far better here than anything we could extract from the binary. Sending you to a five-second re-save gives a better result than a worse converter would.
Will my headings survive?
Yes, provided they are real Word headings rather than ordinary paragraphs made large and bold by hand. That distinction is invisible on screen and decisive here, and it is the single biggest factor in how well a Word file converts.
What happens to tables?
They become Markdown pipe tables, which is the format models read tabular data most reliably in — considerably better than the same data pasted as loose text.
Converting a different format
The same engine handles eighteen formats in total, all of them in your browser.
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