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Convert a Word document to Markdown
Drop a .docx file and get clean Markdown you can edit in any text editor, with headings, lists, links and tables preserved.
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How to convert a word document to markdown
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Drop a .docx
Word 2007+ documents only — the format Google Docs and LibreOffice also export.
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Review the Markdown
Headings, lists, links and tables come across as text you can edit.
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Copy or download
Take the .md into your editor, README, or docs site.
Why export to Markdown at all
Word is fine for reviewing and sending. Markdown is better for keeping: it diffs cleanly, works in any editor, and is what GitHub, GitLab and most documentation systems expect. Converting once beats retyping a finished document.
What survives the trip
Headings become # hashes, lists stay lists, links stay clickable, and basic tables come across as pipe tables. Text boxes, tracked changes and highly nested layouts usually flatten — that is the cost of a format that is meant to be plain text.
Going the other way
When someone needs the file back as a .docx, use Markdown to Word on the same site. Keeping one direction as the “source” and regenerating the other avoids a messy round-trip edit war.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work with .doc files?
No — only .docx. Save or export the older format as .docx first. That is what modern Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice all write by default.
Will formatting survive perfectly?
Structure does: headings, paragraphs, lists, links and basic tables. Fancy Word features — text boxes, tracked changes, complex nested layouts — usually flatten into ordinary Markdown, which is the right trade for something you can keep in git.
What about images?
Images inside the Word file are not extracted into separate files. You get the surrounding text; add the pictures back into the Markdown folder afterwards if you need them.