Convert Word documents to Markdown
Word documents carry a lot of invisible baggage: styles, fonts, tracked changes, comments and layout settings. Markdown keeps only what matters: the text and its structure.
That makes Markdown the better format for pasting into AI assistants, publishing on documentation sites and wikis, or keeping in version control.
How to convert
Drop a .docx file onto the converter. You'll get:
- Headings from Word's Heading 1, Heading 2 and so on, as
##and###headings - Bold and italic text kept as
**bold**and*italic* - Bulleted and numbered lists, including nested lists
- Tables as Markdown tables
Use Word's heading styles
The converter can only recognise a heading if it was formatted with one of Word's Heading styles. Text that was simply made bigger and bold looks like a heading to you, but to the converter it's an ordinary paragraph in bold.
If your headings come out as bold paragraphs, apply proper Heading styles in Word (Home tab → Styles), save, and convert again.
What isn't converted
- Images and charts: Markdown is text only.
- Comments and tracked changes: accept or reject changes first if you want the final text.
- Headers, footers and footnotes may not be included.
- Text boxes and shapes may be skipped.
Older .doc files
The converter reads the modern .docx format. For older .doc files, open them in Word or LibreOffice and choose Save As → Word Document (.docx) first.
Google Docs
In Google Docs, choose File → Download → Microsoft Word (.docx), then drop the downloaded file onto the converter.
Using the result with AI
A converted Word document is usually much smaller than the original, and you can trim it before sending. For long documents, see how to give a very long document to an AI assistant.