Strips the styling and hands back the words — paragraphs, list items and table cells — as a UTF-8 .txt file.
Pull the plain text out of a .docx into a clean .txt file.
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Drop in the document.
Paragraphs keep their line breaks, list items are prefixed with a dash, and table rows come out tab-separated.
Plain UTF-8 text — opens anywhere, in anything.
A UTF-8 .txt file with the document's paragraphs in order. Line breaks inside a paragraph are preserved, list items are marked with a leading dash, and each table row becomes one line with tab-separated cells — paste that into Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets and it lands in columns.
Everything that is formatting rather than content: fonts, sizes, colors, images, headers and footers. That is the point of the tool. If you want the layout too, use Word to PDF instead.
You need to paste a document into a tool that only takes plain text, strip inherited formatting before rewriting something, feed text to a script, diff two drafts as text, or read a .docx on a machine with nothing installed that opens Word files.
The real cause of font substitution in PDF exports, how to embed fonts in Word so it stops, and when a substitute typeface is unavoidable.
Read the guide → GuideA 60-second pre-flight check in Word, then fixes for shifted images, split tables, extra pages and changed spacing after conversion.
Read the guide → GuideWhy your PDF gained an empty page — the four causes in Word, how to see each one with formatting marks on, and the fix for each.
Read the guide →Turn a .docx document into a clean, shareable PDF — right in your browser.
Merge several .docx files into a single PDF, in the order you choose.
Convert many .docx files at once — one PDF each, delivered as a ZIP.
Turn a Word document into high-resolution JPG images — one per page.
Turn a plain text or Markdown file — or text you paste — into a typeset PDF.
Need the other direction? Our PDF to Word converter is on its own site.
The free app converts Word to PDF offline, straight from Files or the share sheet.
Word to PDF