Convert DOCX to HTML

Convert DOCX to HTML to lay a Word document out in tags: headings become headings, lists become lists, tables become tables. The resulting markup drops straight into a web page or an email.

What happens when you convert DOCX to HTML

Word describes formatting with its own styles, which a browser knows nothing about. Copying text from a document into a site editor works, but debris arrives with it: foreign fonts, inline sizes, empty paragraphs.

Converting turns the structure of the document into tags. Heading levels, list order and table rows are kept, and the formatting becomes ordinary CSS rules you can replace with your own.

• Headings, paragraphs, lists and tables each get their own tags.
• Character styles such as bold and italic carry over.
• Images are not embedded into the single HTML file: the markup keeps links to image files that will not be sitting next to it.
• Pagination disappears, since the web has no pages and the text runs continuously.
• Running heads and page numbers do not reach the result.

How to convert DOCX to HTML

1. Upload your DOCX file on this page.
2. Pick HTML as the output format.
3. Click “Convert”.
4. Download the markup file.

Where markup from Word ends up

• Publish an article written in Word on a site or a blog.
• Move a manual into a knowledge base or a wiki page with its structure intact.
• Assemble a newsletter from text that is already written.
• Hand a document to a developer who needs tags rather than a Word file.

Limits

• File size: up to 50 MB as a guest, up to 100 MB with a free account.
• Illustrations have to be uploaded to your site separately, with the paths in the tags corrected.
• A hundred-page document produces one long markup file.

What to do with the finished file

• Clear out the inline styles. Word formatting comes across with the text and almost always fights your site theme.
• Repoint the image links. Upload the pictures from the source document and write their addresses into the tags.
• You only need the words. When markup is beside the point, the DOCX to TXT converter is quicker.

Other directions for DOCX

• The document has to travel in a fixed form: use the DOCX to PDF converter.
• The contents feed a program: the DOCX to JSON converter breaks them apart.
• The text arrived as a PDF and Word is what you need: try the PDF to Word (DOCX) converter.

FAQ

Why are the images missing?

They are not embedded in the markup file, which only holds links to separate image files. Upload the pictures to your site and point the tags at them.

Do tables survive?

Yes, a table becomes tags with rows and cells that you can style yourself.

Is pagination preserved?

No. HTML has no concept of a page, so the document turns into one continuous flow of text.

Can the result be pasted into a site editor?

Yes, though it is worth stripping the styles carried over from Word first, or they will argue with your site design.