Markdown to Word Converter: MD to DOCX, Free

1. Your Markdown

Open a .md file

2. Export

Document title

Used for the file name, the Word document properties and the HTML title.

HTML: full page with styles (untick for the bare HTML body)

Supports GitHub-flavoured Markdown: headings, bold, italics, strikethrough, links, lists, task lists, tables, block quotes and code blocks. The HTML is sanitised, so scripts in the Markdown never run. Word files list images as placeholders because the browser cannot fetch most images from other sites. PDF export uses your browser's print dialog; choose "Save as PDF".

How Markdown to Word conversion works

The Markdown is parsed with marked (GitHub-flavoured Markdown) and written as a native .docx file with the docx library, so the result is real Word formatting rather than pasted HTML:

Headings use Word's Heading 1 to Heading 6 styles, so the navigation pane and an automatic table of contents work.
Lists: bulleted and numbered lists keep their nesting, and task lists show as ticked or empty boxes.
Tables become Word tables with a shaded header row and the column alignment from the Markdown.
Links become clickable hyperlinks, and bold, italic and strikethrough text is kept.
Code and quotes: inline code and code blocks use a monospace font with shading, and block quotes are indented with a left border.

Limits worth knowing

Images become a text placeholder with their alt text, because the browser cannot download most images from other websites; insert them in Word afterwards. Raw HTML inside the Markdown is reduced to its text. Footnote syntax is not part of GitHub-flavoured Markdown as parsed here, so footnotes stay as plain text.

The file opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs (upload it to Drive) and LibreOffice Writer.

Questions and answers

Will Word's table of contents and navigation pane work?

Yes. Markdown headings become Word's built-in Heading styles, which the navigation pane and Word's automatic table of contents use.

Can I open the file in Google Docs?

Yes. Upload the .docx to Google Drive and open it with Google Docs, or open it in LibreOffice Writer.

Are images included in the Word file?

Images are replaced by a placeholder with their alt text, because the browser cannot fetch most images from other sites. Insert the images in Word afterwards.