Word → Markdown

Word document in.
Markdown out.

For anyone who writes in Word and ships in Markdown.

Drag the file over. Copy the result. Done in seconds.

Drop a file here.

Or pick one with the button. Or just paste with Ctrl+V. Dozens at a time is fine.

.docx .doc / 25 MB per file / runs in your browser, nothing uploaded

Other formats: .pdf PDF → MD · .xlsx Excel → MD · .csv .tsv .txt CSV → MD · .html .htm HTML → MD · .pptx .ppt .odp PPTX → MD

Knobs
Bullets
Fence
Images
Tables

How it works

  1. 01Drop your Word file onto the box above, or click to pick one. Dozens at a time is fine.
  2. 02Conversion starts the moment the file lands — no button, no queue on a server. It takes a few hundred milliseconds.
  3. 03Read the Markdown, tweak the knobs if you want a different bullet or fence style, then copy it or download the .md.

What's supported

  • Both Word formats: .docx from 2007 onward and .doc from Word 97–2003
  • Word for Mac and Word Online files, which are .docx under a different badge
  • Headings as # ## ###, real pipe tables, ordered and bulleted lists
  • Bold, italic, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, links and blockquotes
  • A whole folder at once, out as one zip

What it won't do

  • Word 6 and Word 95 files are too old to read
  • Images don't come out of .doc — that format hides them where a browser can't reach
  • Headers, footers and page numbers are page furniture, not document content, so they go
  • Comments and tracked changes are dropped; accept or reject them in Word first
  • Columns, text wrapping and page breaks have no Markdown equivalent

What survives

These carry over as-is. Anything else gets a best effort, and you'll be told when it doesn't line up.

Old .doc files skip the images — that format hides them where a browser can't reach.

Questions people ask

Both formats. .docx from Word 2007 and newer, including Word on Mac and Word Online. Old .doc from Word 97–2003 works as well, minus images. Word 6 and 95 are too old.