Free Online Tool to Convert Word and Excel to Markdown
Upload a Word (.docx) or Excel (.xlsx) file and convert it to clean Markdown in seconds — headings, bullet points, tables, bold, and links are all preserved. Perfect for migrating documents to Notion, GitHub, or Slack, or for knowledge-base migrations from legacy Office files. No sign-up required, completely free.
Why convert Word/Excel to Markdown?
Word is great for print and distribution, but it's ill-suited to Git workflows, collaborative editing, search, and tool integrations. Markdown is plain text, so it flows directly into modern knowledge tools like GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Confluence, and Obsidian.
When migrating an old Word manual library to Notion or Confluence, using this tool to batch-convert to Markdown can cut the time needed by 90%.
Key features
Powered by Microsoft's MarkItDown library. Accurately maps `.docx` heading levels (H1–H6), bullet lists, numbered lists, bold, italic, links, tables, and image alt text to the corresponding Markdown syntax.
Excel (`.xlsx`) sheets are converted to individual tables, separated by H2 headings that use the original sheet names. Works for multi-sheet workbooks, making it easy to share data-analysis documents as Markdown.
How to use
1. Drag and drop a `.docx` or `.xlsx` file (up to 20 MB on the Free plan) 2. Markdown is extracted in seconds 3. Edit the result directly in the text editor, or re-export to HTML / PDF / Word with another tool
Uploaded files are stored temporarily in AWS S3 (Tokyo region) and automatically deleted within one hour.
When it comes in handy
· Migrate old Word manuals to Notion or Confluence · Convert an Excel table into a Markdown table for a blog post · Paste internal documents into ChatGPT or Claude for summarization · Share Word meeting notes in Slack · Save a legacy `.doc` as `.docx` first, then convert to Markdown