Markdown to Word (DOCX)
Markdown to Word, done properly: paste your notes and download a real .docx that Word, Google Docs or Pages will edit. Headings map onto Word's own Heading 1 to 6, code lands in Courier New.
Runs entirely in your browser — your files and text never leave your device.
How to use
- Drop your notes into the Markdown pane, replacing the sample that loads with the page.
- Use the View switch at the top to go Editor, Split or Preview. On a wide screen, drag the divider between the panes instead.
- Give the tables and the nested lists a proper look in the preview. Those are the parts that most often land differently from what you pictured.
- Hit Download DOCX. The document is assembled in a worker and saved as document.docx.
- Open it in Word, Google Docs or Pages, and apply your team's template there if you have one.
About this tool
Markdown to Word is the handoff nobody enjoys doing by hand. You drafted in Markdown because it is quick, and now a reviewer wants to leave tracked changes in Word. Paste the Markdown here, press Download DOCX, and you get document.docx, a real Open XML file that opens for editing anywhere.
The mapping is the useful part. A single # becomes Word's built-in Heading 1 style, ## becomes Heading 2, on down to ###### and Heading 6. That is what fills the navigation pane and makes an inserted table of contents work without touching a thing. Bullets and numbered lists arrive as genuine Word lists, so pressing Enter at the end of one continues it.
Code keeps its own look. Fenced blocks and inline code are set in Courier New, and a block sits on a pale grey shade so it reads as code at a glance. Blockquotes indent a quarter inch with a grey rule down the left edge. Tables come in at full page width with the header row bold and flagged as a header, which is what makes Word repeat it when a table spills onto the next page. Links stay real hyperlinks in Word's Hyperlink style.
It is aimed at people who write in Markdown and hand off to people who never will. Once the file is open, restyle it however your team likes: it ships with Word's stock styles, so editing the Heading 1 style restyles every top-level heading at once. If the reviewer only needs to read the thing, the Markdown to PDF tool makes a fixed-layout version instead.
What the built-in sample turns into
Open the page and the editor already holds a short sample: a title, a paragraph carrying bold and italic and a link, a two-level list, a blockquote, a small table of apples and pears, and a JavaScript function in a fenced block.
Press Download DOCX and open document.docx in Word. The title comes in as Heading 1 and Section as Heading 2. The two nested items under Second point are lettered a. and b. rather than numbered, because the second level of a Word list uses letters. Item and Qty sit in bold across the top of the table, and the hello() function is a Courier New block on grey.
Good to know
- Pictures do not come across. An image written the normal Markdown way points at a file or a URL, and a .docx that has to survive being emailed cannot go and fetch it, so what lands in the document is the alt text in italics. Drag the real image in once the file is open in Word.
Frequently asked questions
Will Word's navigation pane and table of contents pick up my headings?
They will. Headings use Word's built-in Heading 1 through Heading 6 styles rather than hand-set bold text, and those styles are exactly what the navigation pane and the Insert Table of Contents command read.
Can I open the file in Google Docs?
Upload document.docx to Drive and open it with Docs. The heading styles map onto Docs' own Heading 1 and Heading 2, so its outline sidebar fills in the same way Word's does.
What happens to my code blocks in Word?
They land as Courier New paragraphs on a pale grey shade, with each line break kept as a soft break inside one paragraph. Selecting a whole block and changing its font therefore hits every line at once.
Why is my nested numbered list lettered a, b, c?
Word's list levels go digits, then letters, then roman numerals, and the file asks for that arrangement so nesting stays readable. Change it from Word's multilevel list menu if you want digits all the way down.
Do bold and strikethrough survive the conversion?
Bold carries. So does italic, and so does the double-tilde strikethrough, all as genuine character formatting you can select and switch off in Word.
Can I convert a folder of .md files in one go?
One document at a time. There is a single editor and a single Download DOCX button here, so a batch job is better served by something like Pandoc on your own machine.
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