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Word to Markdown
Drop in a .docx and get Markdown that keeps the headings, lists and tables the document already had. Convert several at once and take them as a ZIP. The file never leaves this browser.
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What Word to Markdown can do
It reads the styles, not the look
A Word file already knows its own structure: a "Heading 2" is a heading, not 14-point bold text that happens to look like one. That is the difference between converting by meaning and converting by appearance, and it is why this comes out cleaner than a PDF ever can. A heading becomes a heading, a numbered list stays numbered, and a table becomes a real Markdown table rather than a paragraph of run-together cells.
The same reading the editor uses
The conversion goes through the identical style map that nopa’s own Word editor uses to open a document. That is deliberate: a file opened for editing and the same file converted to Markdown cannot disagree about what is a heading, because there is one implementation and both go through it.
What Markdown cannot hold
Pictures, comments, shapes and anything in Word’s header or footer are left out (a .md file has no place for them), and a note under the file says so. Footnotes come through as numbered paragraphs at the end, and a text box’s words land under the paragraph it sat by. Merged table cells are written flat, because a pipe table cannot span two columns.
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Questions
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. The .docx is unzipped and read in your browser, on this device. It is never sent to a server, and we never see it.
Do tables survive?
Yes, as GFM pipe tables. Merged cells are the exception: Markdown has no syntax for them, so such a row is flattened.
What happens to images in the document?
They are left out: Markdown keeps no pictures without separate files beside it, and a note under the file tells you so. Keep the .docx if the pictures matter.
Can I convert .doc files too?
No, only the modern .docx format. A legacy .doc is a different, binary format; re-save it as .docx in Word or any office suite first.
Can I convert several files at once?
Yes. Add as many .docx files as you like; each becomes a .md with the same name, report.md for report.docx, and Download all as ZIP takes them together.