Paste to Markdown
Paste from Google Docs or Word and keep the formatting as Markdown.
Free, no signup, and it runs entirely in your browser.
Paste here from Google Docs, Word, Notion or a web page.
Markdown
Output appears here.About this tool
Copying out of a word processor and pasting into a Markdown editor normally loses everything — headings flatten, links become bare text, lists become lines starting with a bullet character. The formatting is not actually gone: word processors put an HTML copy on the clipboard alongside the plain text, and almost nothing reads it.
- Paste into the box below and the HTML flavour of your clipboard is read instead of the plain text, then converted. Nothing is typed or uploaded.
- Works with Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Notion, Confluence and any web page. Sources that copy plain text only will say so rather than silently degrading.
- Headings, bold, italic, links, ordered and unordered lists, blockquotes and tables all survive.
- Your document never leaves the browser — worth knowing, since this is a tool people use on drafts they have not published.
Questions
- Why does pasting normally lose my formatting?
- Most editors take the plain-text flavour of the clipboard. The formatted version is there as HTML the whole time; this tool reads that one instead.
- Does it work with Google Docs?
- Yes. Google Docs puts well-formed HTML on the clipboard, so headings, links and nested lists come through intact.
- Is my document uploaded?
- No. The conversion happens in your browser and nothing is transmitted. You can disconnect from the network and it still works.