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Text to Word

Paste or type text and get a .docx you can open in Word, Google Docs, Pages or LibreOffice and keep editing. The headings and lists arrive as real Word styles, not as text that merely looks bigger.

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You will get

Word Open XML Document

document.docx

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How to use it

  1. 1

    Type or paste your text

    Anything you have in a web page, a chat, an email or a notes app. The formatting comes with it.

  2. 2

    Format it however you like

    Headings, bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, bullet and numbered lists, quotes, code blocks, tables and links — applied straight to the text on screen. There is no markup to learn and no preview to switch to: what you are looking at is the document.

  3. 3

    Create the document

    Press Create DOCX and it downloads. Open it in Word, Google Docs, Pages or LibreOffice and carry on editing — nothing about the file is locked or watermarked.

Privacy, in plain words

Is it safe? Your document is not uploaded anywhere

What “uploaded” normally means. On most online converters, pressing the button copies your file across the internet onto a computer owned by that website. That copy is what the word “upload” means, and it is the part nobody explains.

What happens instead. This site does not do it. There is no server here that receives files, so your document is read, converted and handed back by the browser you are using right now. It never travels — so there is no copy to store, read, leak or hand over.

Check it yourself in ten seconds

Turn off your Wi-Fi after this page has loaded, then convert a file anyway. It still works, because everything needed is already on your device.

The longer explanation of how this works, and the full detail of what is and is not stored on the privacy page.

Why this matters more than it sounds

A Word file is usually a draft — which means it carries the things that were not meant to be final, and often tracked changes and comments nobody removed. It matters more than it sounds, because of what documents usually are:

Tenancy and loan agreements

identity details plus your financial position

Medical and clinical reports

patient information that is regulated in most countries

Unpublished manuscripts

work whose value depends on it not circulating

Employment contracts

salary, notice periods, restraint clauses

A file that is never sent cannot be kept, leaked, subpoenaed or used to train anything. That is a property of how this works, not a promise about how carefully it is run.

When this is the right tool

Reach for this when someone else needs to edit what you have written. A PDF is the right answer for something final; a .docx is the right answer for a draft, a template or anything that will be marked up and sent back.

It is also the fastest way to get something out of a browser and into Word. Paste an article, a set of notes or a table from a web page and it arrives with proper heading styles already applied, rather than as a wall of text you have to restyle by hand.

What the formatting actually does

Each control marks up real structure, and the converter carries that into the Word document. A heading becomes a heading in the file's outline, not just larger text; a bullet list becomes a real list; a table becomes a table with cells.

That matters more than it sounds. Structure is what lets a screen reader announce your headings, and a word processor show an outline you can collapse. Text that has merely been made bigger and bolder has none of that.

Headings
Three levels, which is as deep as most documents need. They become the document's outline.
Lists
Bulleted and numbered. Numbered lists renumber themselves as you add and remove items.
Emphasis
Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, applied to whatever you have selected.
Blocks
Quotes, fenced code blocks, tables and horizontal rules, all rendered as their real equivalents.

What it will not do

There is no control for typeface, text size or colour on individual words, and that is deliberate rather than unfinished. Those would be per-word styling, and the honest position is that a button which silently does nothing is worse than one that is not there.

Document-level choices — page size and the typeface for the whole document — are in the settings panel beside the editor, because they apply to the finished file rather than to a selection.

Images cannot be placed from the editor. Everything here is text you typed or pasted, which is also why nothing has to be uploaded.

Measured, not estimated

What this tool actually does to a file

Turning pasted text into DOCX at the default settings.

On every sample measured, the result came out larger — 24% larger at best and 16× larger at worst.

Each row is one document, chosen because this tool behaves differently depending on what is inside the file.
SampleInOutChange
An easy clipThe compressible end of the range — a clean tone, or a moving test pattern — where a codec does its best work.560 B8.5 KB16×
A hard clipThe other end — pink noise, or dense video grain. Close to incompressible by design, and the worst case for every codec.6.9 KB8.6 KB+24%

Produced by this site's own converter. The same code that runs in your browser, at the same default settings, so these are the bytes you would download.

Samples are generated from a fixed seed rather than taken from real photographs or documents, so the corpus is reproducible and carries no licensing question — and so the numbers predict the shape of your result rather than its exact size. Measured 2026-10-01. The method, and the command that regenerates every figure on this page, are on the how it works page.

About these formats

Accepts

HyperText Markup Language

The markup language of the web.

Extensions
.html, .htm, .xhtml
MIME type
text/html
Best for
Web pages · Email templates · Rich exports
Compatibility
Every browser.

Write or paste plain text or Markdown — Markdown headings, lists, bold and links are rendered. Nothing is uploaded; the document is built in your browser.

Good to know

Text to Word — questions

Will the headings be real Word headings?

Yes. They are written as Word's built-in heading styles, so the navigation pane shows them, a table of contents can be generated from them, and restyling the document restyles them together.

Can I edit the result?

Fully. It is an ordinary .docx with no protection, no watermark and no trial restriction. Everything in it is editable text.

Does it open in Google Docs and Pages?

.docx is the format all of them read, so yes. Upload it to Google Drive and open with Google Docs, or double-click it on a Mac to open in Pages.

Does formatting survive when I paste from a website?

Yes. Headings, bold and italic, lists, tables and links all come across as themselves. What gets dropped is the site's own styling — its fonts, colours, classes and scripts — which the document formats could not carry anyway, and which is where pasted content usually goes wrong.

How much text can I paste?

Up to 25 MB, which is far more than any realistic document — roughly four million words. The editor shows the size as you type and tells you before you hit the limit.

Does my text get uploaded?

No. The document is built by JavaScript running in this tab, and nothing is sent anywhere. You can test that by disconnecting from the internet before you press convert — it still works.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up, no limit on how many documents you make, and no watermark on the output.

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