Word to HTML Converter

Add your Word documents to the box above, choose how the HTML should look, and press Convert to HTML. Each document becomes clean, readable code with real headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, links and pictures. You can look at the result in a live preview, read the code, copy it in one click or download it as a file.

DOCX, DOCM and DOTX files are converted inside your browser and are never uploaded. Older DOC files, ODT files from LibreOffice and RTF files are first turned into DOCX on our server and deleted at once. You can add up to 30 documents at a time, each up to 50 MB.

Most writing still starts in Microsoft Word. Articles, product descriptions, help pages, reports, newsletters and course notes are typed, checked and approved as DOCX files, and then someone has to put them on a website, into a content system or into an email. Copying and pasting straight from Word rarely goes well: fonts, colours and odd spacing come along, headings turn into big bold paragraphs, and lists lose their numbers.

Converting the document to HTML first solves that. You get the structure of the text in the language every browser, content system and email program understands: a heading is a heading tag, a list is a list tag, a table is a table tag. The result is easy to paste, easy to edit and easy to style with the look of the site it lands on.

It also saves a lot of manual work. Re-typing headings, re-creating tables cell by cell and adding links again one by one takes far longer than the few seconds a conversion needs, and it is where most mistakes creep in.

Word has its own Save as Web Page command, so why not use that? Because Word is trying to make the web page look exactly like the printed page, and the HTML it writes is full of things only Word needs. Open such a file in a text editor and you will find hundreds of lines of style rules starting with mso-, which only Microsoft Office reads, plus class names like MsoNormal on almost every paragraph.

There is more. Word adds conditional comments that only old versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook understand, VML markup for shapes and pictures, XML blocks with document properties, a separate folder of files for themes and colour schemes, and inline styles on every span of text with fonts, sizes and line heights. A one-page letter can easily produce 30 KB or more of HTML, most of which has nothing to do with your words.

That markup is hard to read, hard to edit and fights the styles of your website. A heading pasted from it may still carry Calibri at 16 points, a list may be built from paragraphs with hand-made indents and symbol fonts instead of a real list, and a content system may strip some of it and keep the rest, so the page looks broken in odd places.

This tool goes the other way. It reads the meaning of your document, not its exact look: which paragraphs are headings, which are list items, which text is bold or a link, and which parts are tables. It writes only the plain HTML tags for those things, so the code is short, readable and ready for any website to style.

This is a word to html converter free of sign-ups, watermarks, daily limits and trials that run out. There is no account to create and nothing to install. Convert one document or a batch of thirty, then another batch, as often as you need.

The Word files you convert are not stored and there is no premium version hiding the useful options. Every setting on this page, from email-ready output to separate picture files, is available to everyone, every time.

Most of the work is done by your own device, so there is no server queue to wait in. A typical document of a few pages converts in about a second; long reports with many pictures take a little longer.

Clean is easy to promise and hard to check, so here is exactly what you get when you convert Word to clean HTML with this tool. Each paragraph is one p tag. Each heading is one heading tag at the right level. Bold is strong, italic is em, and lists are real lists, not paragraphs with bullets typed in.

What you do not get: no mso- styles, no MsoNormal classes, no span tags carrying font names and sizes, no empty paragraphs used as spacing (unless you turn that clean-up off), no conditional comments and no Word XML. With Clean, readable styles chosen, the full web page carries a short block of CSS for fonts, spacing and table borders. With No styles at all, there is not even that.

The code is tidy and indented by default, so you can read it and edit it by hand. If you need it as short as possible, choose Compact under More options, or run it through our HTML Minifier afterwards.

You can convert DOCX to HTML online on any computer, tablet or phone with a modern browser: Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook, iPhone, iPad and Android. Open this page, add the file and convert. Nothing needs to be installed, and the page keeps working the same way everywhere.

On a phone, tap the box to pick a document from your files, from iCloud Drive, Google Drive or OneDrive if they show up in the file picker. The HTML can then be copied straight into an app or saved to your downloads.

Large documents with many high-resolution pictures need more memory, so very big files go more smoothly on a computer than on an older phone.

Converting Word to HTML with images raises one question: where should the pictures go? HTML pages do not contain pictures the way a DOCX file does. Normally an img tag points to a separate picture file. This tool gives you three choices under Pictures.

Inside the HTML writes each picture into the code itself as base64 text, so the result is one self-contained file. It opens anywhere with every picture in place, which is ideal for sharing a single file, for previews and for quick checks. The downside is size: base64 makes each picture about a third larger, and the code becomes long and hard to read.

Separate files saves each picture as its own file in an images folder and puts the HTML and the folder together in a ZIP. The img tags point to those files, so you can upload the folder to your website, or upload the pictures to your media library and update the paths. This is the cleanest choice for real web pages.

Leave out drops the pictures completely and keeps only the text. That is handy when you only want the words, when pictures are added later in your content system, or when the document's pictures are logos and decorations you do not need.

In every case, picture descriptions (alt text) set in Word are kept as alt attributes, so screen readers and search engines know what each picture shows.

Tables are where copy and paste from Word goes wrong most often, so they get extra care here. Used as a word to html table converter, this tool turns each Word table into a real table with rows and cells, keeps the text, bold, links and lists inside the cells, and keeps the order of rows and columns exactly as in your document.

Merged cells are kept as colspan and rowspan where Word stores them as merged cells. A heading cell spread over three columns becomes one cell with colspan of 3, and a cell merged down two rows becomes one cell with rowspan of 2. Tables nested inside other tables are kept as nested tables.

The look of the table is a different matter. Word's border styles, shading colours and exact column widths are not copied. With Clean, readable styles you get simple borders and padding that look tidy on any page; with No styles at all, the table is bare and takes its look from your website. For email, the email-ready option adds border and cellpadding to the table itself so it holds together in Gmail and Outlook.

If your data lives in a spreadsheet rather than a document, CSV to HTML builds a table straight from rows of data, and JSON to HTML does the same for JSON.

People search for a word to html online free tool because they do not want to install software for a small job. That is exactly how this one works: it is a web page. There is no desktop program, no browser extension, no app and no account. Open the page, add a document, convert.

Free also means no hidden costs later. There is no limit on how many documents you convert in a day, no watermark or notice added to your HTML, and no option that is held back until you pay.

Once the document is converted, the result shows two views. Preview shows the page the way a browser draws it, in a sandboxed frame that cannot run scripts. Code shows the actual word to html code: the tags, the text and, if you chose them, the styles. Switch between the two to check that the headings, lists and tables came through as you expect.

Copy HTML code puts the whole result on your clipboard in one click, ready to paste into a content system, an email builder or a code editor. Download HTML saves it as a .html file, or as a ZIP with the pictures when you chose Separate files. With several documents, download them all together in one ZIP.

The code view shows the start of very long results; Copy and Download always give you all of it.

Turning Word to HTML for email needs special care, because email programs are much stricter than browsers. Gmail removes most style blocks in the head of a message, Outlook on Windows draws email with Word's own engine, and many programs ignore classes. What works everywhere is styling written directly on each tag.

That is what the Email-ready option does. It moves the styles onto the tags themselves as inline style attributes, and gives tables a border and cellpadding so they keep their shape. Choose it together with Body only if you paste into an email builder or a newsletter tool, or with Full web page if you send the HTML file to someone who will load it into their sending system.

Keep pictures in mind. Many email programs block base64 pictures or show them only after a click, and some strip them. For newsletters, choose Separate files, upload the pictures to your sending service or website, and change the src paths to their web addresses. For short messages with no pictures, choose Leave out.

Pasting a Word document into the WordPress editor often brings along stray spans, font styles and empty paragraphs. Converting Word to HTML for WordPress first gives you clean headings, lists and tables that take on the look of your theme straight away.

Choose Body only, because WordPress already provides the head and the page around your post. Choose No styles at all if you want the theme to decide every font and colour, or Clean, readable if you like a little table styling. For pictures, Separate files is usually best: upload the pictures to the Media Library, then insert them where they belong or change the src paths to their new addresses.

The same body-only code works in almost any content system. In Blogger, open the post editor, switch from Compose view to HTML view and paste. In Shopify, open a product, page or blog post, press the Show HTML button in the editor toolbar and paste. In Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Ghost, Joomla, Drupal and most help-desk tools, look for an HTML, code or embed block.

If your system works with Markdown instead, convert the HTML with HTML to Markdown. If you write in Markdown and need HTML, Markdown to HTML does that job.

Sometimes you want the text and the structure and nothing else. That is what Word to HTML without styles gives you: choose No styles at all under Styles and the result has no CSS block, no style attributes, no classes and none of Word's mso- junk. Only the semantic tags remain: headings, paragraphs, strong, em, lists, tables, links, blockquote and pre.

This is the best choice when the HTML goes into a site with its own design, a template system or a developer's code. Your website's style sheet decides how everything looks, so the content matches every other page on the site.

Note that No styles at all is about styling, not about the tags. Bold text stays strong, links stay links, and tables keep their colspan and rowspan. If you also want to drop underlines, leave Keep underlined text off, which is the default.

The quality of the HTML depends mostly on how the Word document was built. When headings use the Heading 1, Heading 2 and Heading 3 styles, they become h1, h2 and h3, and the order of the page is clear to browsers, screen readers and search engines. The Title style becomes h1 and the Subtitle style becomes h2.

When a heading is only a normal paragraph made bigger and bolder by hand, the tool sees a normal paragraph with bold text, because that is all Word stores. Before converting, it is worth a minute to apply real heading styles in Word; the Navigation pane shows at a glance which lines are headings.

Numbered and bulleted lists made with Word's list buttons become ol and ul lists, with sub-levels nested inside their parent item. Lists typed by hand with dashes or numbers stay as paragraphs, since Word does not know they are lists either.

Footnotes and endnotes are kept. Each note mark in the text becomes a small numbered link, and the notes themselves are gathered in a numbered list at the end of the HTML, each with a link back to where it was used. That keeps reports, essays and legal texts complete on the web.

Paragraphs in the Quote or Intense Quote style become blockquote, which most websites show as an indented quotation. Paragraphs in a style named Code become pre with code inside, so program code keeps its line breaks and spacing. Hyperlinks become links to the same address, and links to bookmarks inside the document keep pointing to the right place.

DOCX, DOCM (with macros) and DOTX (templates) are read directly by your browser. Macros are never run; only the text and pictures are read.

DOC, the older Word format from Word 97 to 2003, ODT from LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and RTF cannot be read reliably in a browser. These are first converted to DOCX on our server with LibreOffice, sent back to your browser and deleted from the server at once. The HTML itself is then made in your browser just like for a DOCX file.

If you would rather nothing ever leaves your device, open the DOC, ODT or RTF file in Word or LibreOffice, save it as DOCX and convert that.

Good HTML is accessible HTML, and the conversion helps here. Real heading tags let screen reader users jump from section to section, real lists announce how many items they have, and tables keep their rows and columns so each cell can be read in context.

Picture descriptions (alt text) set in Word are kept as alt attributes. In Word, right-click a picture and choose View Alt Text or Edit Alt Text to add one before converting. Pictures without a description get no alt text, so add descriptions for any picture that carries meaning.

Links keep their own text, so a link that reads “download the price list” stays that clear. If your document says “click here” a lot, it is worth rewording those links in Word first.

Search engines read the structure of a page. One clear h1, h2 sections under it and h3 sub-sections tell them what the page is about and how it is organised. Lists and tables are easier for them to understand than paragraphs with typed bullets, and pages that are light and quick to load are easier for visitors too.

Clean HTML helps with all of that. Without hundreds of lines of Word styles, the content is a larger share of the page, it loads faster, and your site's design applies consistently. Alt text on pictures gives search engines a description of each picture as well.

A practical tip: if your page template already shows the post title as h1, start the Word document with Heading 2 rather than Title or Heading 1, so the page has only one h1.

To be clear about what this tool is for: it makes clean, editable HTML from the content of a Word document. It does not make a copy of how the page looks in Word, and the HTML is not a pixel copy of the page.

Fonts, font sizes, text colours, highlight colours, page size, margins, page breaks, columns, headers, footers and page numbers are not copied. Your website or email decides those things. Text boxes are read as normal paragraphs, so complex text boxes may lose their position on the page. Charts and SmartArt may come out as pictures or be left out, depending on how Word saved them. Equations, comments and tracked changes are not part of the HTML.

If you need the document to look exactly as it does in Word, a PDF is the better format: Word to PDF keeps every font and the layout of every page. For a picture of each page, use Word to JPG.

After each conversion the tool tells you how many Word formatting details had no HTML equivalent. These are things like a font colour, a text box position or a style the tool could not map to a tag. The text inside them is still in your HTML; only that bit of Word formatting was not carried over.

A small number is normal and usually harmless. A large number is a hint to look at the preview carefully: the document may lean on hand-made formatting rather than styles, and applying Word's heading and list styles before converting will give a cleaner result.

You can add up to 30 documents at once, each up to 50 MB. They are converted one after another with the same options, and you can look at the preview and code of each one in turn.

When the batch is done, download every result together in one ZIP, with each document's HTML named after the original file. If you chose Separate files for pictures, each document's pictures are kept with that document so the paths stay correct.

DOCX, DOCM and DOTX files are read and converted entirely in your browser. They are not uploaded, not stored and not seen by anyone. The HTML is made on your device and saved straight to your downloads or your clipboard.

Only DOC, ODT and RTF files are sent to our server, over an encrypted connection, to be turned into DOCX. The file is deleted from the server as soon as the DOCX has been sent back, and nothing is kept or read by people. The preview runs in a sandboxed frame that does not run scripts, so even a document with odd content cannot do anything on this page.

A DOCX file is a ZIP package of XML files. The tool opens that package in your browser, reads the main document, the styles, the numbering definitions, the notes and the pictures, and works out for each paragraph which kind of block it is: heading, list item, quote, code or normal text.

It then writes the matching HTML tags, builds lists and tables with the right nesting, places pictures inside the code, into separate files or nowhere, applies your style choices, removes empty paragraphs if you asked for that, and formats the code tidy or compact. Finally it counts the Word formatting it could not express in HTML and shows you that number.

Need shorter code? HTML Minifier removes spaces and line breaks. Working in Markdown? HTML to Markdown turns the result into Markdown, and Markdown to HTML goes the other way.

Need the document as it looks on paper? Word to PDF and Word to JPG keep the exact layout. To edit a PDF in Word first, use PDF to Word. All our document tools are listed under Office Tools, and the converters for CSV and JSON under Data Tools.