Free tool · Word to HTML
Free Word to HTML converter
Drop a .docx file and get clean HTML: headings, lists, tables, links and images, without Word’s styling clutter. Copy it, download it, or send it as a link. Nothing is uploaded.
Open a .docx file on the left to see it here as HTML.
The HTML tab shortens embedded pictures so the markup stays readable; Copy HTML, the download and Publish include them in full. Published free with no signup, a page is live for 7 days; sign up free to keep it. A published page is public to anyone with the link and noindex.
How it works
Convert a Word document to HTML in three steps
Drop the .docx
Drop a Word document on the converter or choose it from your files. It is read inside this tab: the file is never uploaded to a server.
Check the preview
The HTML shows as a page right away. Switch to the HTML tab to see the markup: headings, paragraphs, lists and tables, with no Word styling attached.
Copy, download or publish
Copy the HTML into your CMS or email tool, download it as an .html page, or publish it as a link that tells you when it was opened.
What carries over
Clean HTML from a Word document, structure first
Headings and text
Word heading styles become h1 to h6, so the outline survives. Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript come through as strong, em, u, s, sup and sub.
Lists and tables
Bulleted and numbered lists keep their nesting and start numbers. Tables keep header rows, merged cells (colspan and rowspan) and the text in every cell.
Links, pictures and notes
Hyperlinks stay links. Pictures are embedded in the HTML as data URIs, so the file works on its own. Footnotes become a numbered list at the end.
What does not
What a .docx holds that HTML will not
Tracked changes and comments
Tracked changes are applied as if accepted: inserted text stays, deleted text goes. Comments are left out. The page tells you when a file had either.
Layout and look
Fonts, colors, sizes, spacing, columns and page breaks are not copied. The HTML is plain and semantic, so your own CSS decides how it looks.
Headers, footers and drawings
Headers and footers, charts, SmartArt, shapes, and EMF or WMF pictures are not converted. Text boxes keep their text, placed after the paragraph they sit in.
Old .doc files
The converter reads .docx only. A Word 97-2003 .doc file, or a password-protected document, has to be saved as .docx in Word first.
The next step
Send the document as a link, not an attachment
Noindex by default
Published pages tell search engines to stay away, so a document you share won’t surface on Google the way most free hosts’ public pages can.
Password protection
On Solo and Team, lock a page with an encrypted password we can’t read, enforced before the page ever loads.
View tracking
An attachment goes quiet once it is sent. A page counts every view, and Solo and Team add unique viewers, country and time on page.
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HTML to Word
The other direction: paste HTML and download a real .docx with headings, lists, tables, links and images.
Convert HTML to Word →HTML formatter
Indent the converted HTML with 2 or 4 spaces, or minify it, and see the size before and after.
Format the HTML →PDF to link
Have the document as a PDF too? Publish it as a link and see which pages your reader opened.
Publish a PDF →Word to HTML FAQ
Drop the .docx file on the converter above, or choose it with Open a .docx. The HTML appears right away as a preview. Press Copy HTML for the markup, or Download .html for a complete page you can open in any browser. It is free and needs no signup.
No. The .docx is unzipped and read by JavaScript inside this browser tab, and nothing is sent to a server while you convert, preview, copy or download. The document only leaves your device if you press Publish, which turns it into a page with its own link.
It keeps the structure: headings, paragraphs, bold, italic, underline, lists, tables, links and pictures. It does not copy fonts, colors, sizes or spacing, because inline Word styling makes HTML hard to reuse. The page you download has a small, readable stylesheet you can replace.
PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP and WebP pictures are embedded in the HTML as data URIs, with the size they had in the document and their alt text if they had one. EMF and WMF pictures (often from older Office clip art or Visio) cannot be shown by browsers and are left out; the converter says when that happens.
Not a .doc directly: open it in Word and save it as .docx (File, Save As, Word Document). A Google Doc works once you download it with File, Download, Microsoft Word (.docx). Pages documents export to Word the same way.