Turn DOCX documents into MD. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop DOCX files here
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Drop DOCX (Word) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the MD, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The DOCX to MD converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your documents are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
A DOCX can look different on another computer, and not everyone has a word processor. Markdown is plain text that stays readable and is easy to keep in version control. DOCX is at home in documents that will be edited again; MD is the usual choice for READMEs, notes and documentation.
The document is read by its structure (headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, links and images), not by its page layout, so fonts, margins, columns, headers and footers are not reproduced.
DOCX is the format Microsoft Word has saved by default since Office 2007. Inside it is a ZIP archive of XML files describing text, styles and images. Layout can shift between Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice because each lays the text out itself.
Opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages, LibreOffice
DOCX converterMarkdown is plain text with a few symbols for headings, lists, links and emphasis. It is readable as-is and converts cleanly to HTML, which is why developers and note-takers favour it.
Opens in Any text editor; rendered by GitHub, Obsidian, Notion and many note apps
MD converter| DOCXWord document | MDMarkdown | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Office Open XML Document | Markdown |
| Type | Editable word-processor document | Lightweight markup text |
| Compression | ZIP container of XML | None |
| Introduced | 2007, by Microsoft | 2004, by John Gruber |
| Opens in | Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages, LibreOffice | Any text editor; rendered by GitHub, Obsidian, Notion and many note apps |
| Best for | Documents that will be edited again | READMEs, notes and documentation |
| File extension | .docx | .md, .markdown |
No. The DOCX to MD conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Text is kept. Formatting carries over only as far as MD supports it.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the DOCX file, press Convert and save the MD. There is nothing to install.
Yes. Files up to 150 MB are accepted; a larger one is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.