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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

Images, footnotes, endnotes, comments and text boxes have no Markdown syntax, so they do not survive — and the tool says so on the file rather than letting you find out by reading. Merged table cells are the other honest limit: a pipe table has no syntax for a cell spanning two columns, so the row is written flat.

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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 dropped, because Markdown has nowhere to put them without files alongside it. The tool marks the document as lossy so you know before you rely on the output.

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 as you like — each becomes its own `.md`, and one button takes them all as a ZIP.