Word (.docx) to Text & HTML Converter
Pull the content out of a Word document without opening Word.
100% in-browser · no data sent
Drop in a .docx file and get clean plain text or HTML back, with headings, bold and italic, lists and tables preserved. Your file never leaves your computer — the document is unzipped and converted entirely in your browser, which makes this safe for drafts and contracts you would rather not upload anywhere.
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How to Use
Choose a .docx file
Drag a Word document onto the drop zone or click to browse. Only the modern .docx format works — if you have an old .doc file, open it in Word and save it as .docx first.
Pick what to keep
Toggle whether to keep bold and italic formatting, map Word's heading styles onto real HTML headings, and render tables as tables. Turn them all off for the plainest possible text.
Check the result
Switch between the plain text, the HTML source and a rendered preview. The word, paragraph, heading, list and table counts tell you at a glance whether anything was missed.
Copy or download
Copy the output to the clipboard, or download it as a .txt or .html file ready to paste into a CMS, an email or your editor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is my document uploaded to a server?
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript — the file is read, unzipped and parsed on your own machine, and nothing is ever sent over the network. You can confirm it by disconnecting from the internet: the tool still works.
What does a .docx file actually contain?
A .docx is a ZIP archive. Inside it, word/document.xml holds the text and structure as WordprocessingML, alongside separate parts for styles, images and numbering. This tool unzips the archive, reads that XML and converts it — which is why it is fast and needs no Word install.
What gets kept and what gets dropped?
Kept: paragraphs, headings, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, bulleted and numbered lists with nesting, tables, line breaks and hyperlink text. Dropped: images, fonts, colours, exact spacing, headers and footers, comments and tracked changes. The aim is clean, readable content rather than a pixel copy of the page.
Why do numbered lists come out as bullets?
Word stores list numbering in a separate numbering.xml part rather than on the paragraph itself, so the paragraph only says "I am a list item at depth 1". Without resolving that part the numbering style is unknown, so every list is rendered as a bulleted list. The text and nesting are correct — only the marker differs.