Word → Markdown
Turn a .docx into clean Markdown, without uploading it anywhere.
Choose a .docx file. It is read and converted in your browser — never uploaded.
Choose a Word document to convert.
A Word document, as Markdown
What carries over
Headings, bold, italic, links, bulleted and numbered lists, tables (as content), footnotes and endnotes. The structure of the document survives, which is what you actually want in Markdown.
What doesn't, and why
Fonts, colours, sizes, table borders, page layout and headers/footers have no Markdown equivalent, so they are dropped rather than approximated. You get told this every time — it isn't hidden in a footnote.
Images become placeholders
Markdown has no way to embed a binary image. Rather than inline a megabyte of base64 into one unreadable line, each image becomes `![alt text]()` with its description kept, and the count is reported. Re-link the images to real files when you place the Markdown.
Your document stays on your device
The .docx is read into browser memory and converted there. It is never uploaded, never stored, and we never see it. Even a document with linked images cannot reach out — the converter refuses external file access by construction.
Questions about Word to Markdown
- Does my document get uploaded?
- No. It is read into memory in your browser and converted there. Nothing is transmitted — you can disconnect from the network and it still works once the page has loaded.
- What happens to images?
- Each becomes a `![alt text]()` placeholder and the count is shown. Markdown can't hold binary image data, and embedding it as base64 would produce a single line running to megabytes — unreadable, and large enough to exceed the conversion limit on its own.
- Do tables survive?
- Yes, as GitHub-flavoured pipe tables. The first row becomes the header, because Markdown has no headerless table. Borders and cell shading are dropped — Markdown can't express them.
- Can it read old .doc files?
- No, only .docx. The pre-2007 .doc format is a completely different binary format. Open it in Word and save as .docx first.
- Why did a long document fail to convert?
- The conversion runs in your browser tab, and very long documents take long enough to freeze it. Rather than hang, the tool stops and tells you. Split the document and convert the parts.
- What about footnotes and comments?
- Footnotes and endnotes are converted. Tracked changes and comments are not part of the document body and don't appear in the output.
Need the other direction?
Markdown → Word is on the way. Meanwhile, Format Markdown will tidy what you just converted.
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