Markdown to Word Converter

What each Markdown element becomes

The parser follows CommonMark 0.31.2 and the GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions (tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks, footnotes). The output uses named Word styles, so you can restyle the whole document from the Styles pane.

Example: a weekly report

The sample in the editor is a short status report. Exported on 2026-09-30 and read back from word/document.xml:

• “Done” and “Next” are <w:pStyle w:val="Heading2"/>, so they show up in Word’s Navigation pane.
• The two ordered items carry <w:numPr> with the same numId. The number is generated by Word, not typed, so inserting an item renumbers the list.
• The nested “3 attempts…” bullet is level 1 of the bullet list.
• The table header row has <w:tblHeader/>; the “Before” and “After” columns are right-aligned (<w:jc w:val="right"/>) because the separator row is -------:.
• The two task items are w14:checkbox controls, one checked and one not.
• The [^1] note is in word/footnotes.xml, and Word numbers it.

Example: images

With Embed web images off (the default), every http(s) image becomes a link labelled with its alt text, and no request leaves the browser. With it on, your browser downloads the images at export time, which works only if the server allows cross-origin requests (CORS). In our test on 2026-09-30, with the switch on:

![Markdown logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/explore/main/topics/markdown/markdown.png)
![No CORS](https://www.baidu.com/img/flexible/logo/pc/result.png)
![local](./img/a.png)

The status line read “1 image(s) embedded · 2 image(s) could not be loaded and were kept as links”. With the switch off, the same file gave three links and the browser’s network log showed no image request. The GitHub image (sent with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *) was embedded as a 288 × 288 px PNG. The second server sends no such header, so the image became a link labelled [No CORS] pointing to its address. The relative path cannot be resolved from a web page and became the text [local]. Images written as data: URIs are embedded in both states, without any request. SVG and WebP images are redrawn as PNG before they are embedded.

How it compares with other online converters

On 2026-09-30 we exported the same test file from markdowntoword.io, the first result for “markdown to word” in Google in the US, and for the Chinese, Japanese and Korean queries we checked, and from mdtoword.org, which appeared in the Chinese and Japanese results. Then we read each document.xml:

The last row matters for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Under CommonMark’s flanking rules, a closing ** preceded by punctuation such as ： and followed by a letter does not close the bold. This tool adds the CJK-friendly emphasis extension, so text copied from AI chat answers keeps its bold labels.

If you need a company template, equations or a batch job, pandoc with --reference-doc is the better tool; it runs on your computer and needs no upload either.

Limits

• No table of contents is inserted. Insert one in Word with References > Table of Contents (Microsoft’s steps); it picks up the Heading 1–3 paragraphs.
• No LaTeX math, Mermaid, syntax colors in code, headers, footers or page numbers.
• Raw HTML is not rendered. Tags are removed and their text kept; <br> becomes a line break; <script>, <style> and comments are dropped.
• YAML front matter between --- lines at the top of the file is not exported.
• Open .md reads UTF-8 text only. A file saved as GBK, Shift_JIS, EUC-KR or UTF-16, or a file that is not text, is not opened: the status line names the byte where the problem starts and the editor keeps its text. For example, # 中文 saved as GBK stops at byte 2 (counting from 0). Re-save such a file as UTF-8 first.
• Paper is A4 or Letter, portrait, with 2.54 cm (1 inch) margins. Images are scaled to at most the text width (about 16 cm on A4); redrawn SVG and WebP images are capped at 4,096 px per side.
• File names lose the characters \ / : * ? " < > | and are cut at 80 characters.
• A 12,000-line test file (167,559 characters) was parsed, built and packed in about 1 second on an Apple M1 Max.

To check how Markdown renders before exporting, use the Markdown Preview. To go the other way, from a web page to Markdown, use HTML to Markdown.