Step 1: Add your Word files using the button above or by carry and plop.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Pull your converted MD files.
Word to MD Conversion FAQ
Will my formatting survive Word to MD?
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Headings, bold and italic, lists, tables, links and embedded images map across whenever both sides can express them. Where they cannot the converter degrades gracefully rather than failing — converting into a plain-text target, for example, keeps the words and the reading order and drops the styling.
Why convert Word to MD at all?
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Usually compatibility. Word documents keep text, styles and images as editable objects rather than as a fixed page image, while Markdown is plain text with a light convention for headings, links and emphasis, designed to stay readable unrendered — so the conversion is about getting the content into the format the receiving tool, publishing pipeline or archive policy actually accepts.
Do page numbers, headers and footers carry over?
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They survive between page-oriented formats that model them. Flowing formats such as HTML, Markdown and plain text have no concept of a page at all, so running heads and page numbers are dropped there — there is nowhere to put them.
Are tables preserved when converting Word to MD?
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Simple grids convert reliably. Merged cells, nested tables and cells with their own paragraph styling are the usual casualties — they are represented very differently across document models, and something has to give. Check complex tables after conversion.
Does the text stay editable and searchable?
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Yes. This is a document-to-document conversion, so text stays as text throughout — no rasterising, no OCR needed. You can select, search, copy and edit the MD exactly as you would any native file.
Will fonts look the same in the MD?
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Font names are carried across, but rendering depends on what is installed where the MD is opened. Formats that embed fonts keep the appearance; formats that only name them substitute the nearest match, which can change line breaks and page count.
Can I convert several Word files at once?
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Several files in one job need a paid plan. Free use is one file per conversion, one conversion an hour. On a paid plan you can add several files to one job, then download each result on its own or all of them in one ZIP.
Do comments, tracked changes and revision history survive?
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Between closely-related word-processing formats, usually yes. Into simpler targets they are flattened or dropped — a plain-text or Markdown file has nowhere to record an unresolved comment thread. Resolve tracked changes before converting if the review history matters.
What about hyperlinks and internal cross-references?
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External hyperlinks are preserved wherever the MD supports links. Internal cross-references and tables of contents survive between structured formats but become plain text in formats with no anchor mechanism.
Is there a size or page limit?
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Free accounts cover documents up to the posted size cap, which is generous for ordinary text documents; the files that exceed it are almost always image-heavy. Pro raises the cap for long reports and scanned archives.
Is my Word document private?
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Yes. Uploaded Word files are processed on our own conversion servers, no person reviews them, and they are never shared. The upload and the converted MD are both deleted automatically about 24 hours after the conversion, which leaves time to download the result. See /privacy/ for the full policy.
