Word to Text
Choose a Word document and get its words as plain text, ready to paste anywhere. It’s read on your device, and nothing is uploaded.
or drop it here. A .docx file (Word 2007 or later), up to 25 MB.
Choose a Word document to get its text.
Words only: layout, styles, list bullets and numbers, images, headers, footers, footnotes and comments are left out, and tables come one cell to a line.
Your document stays on your device: it’s read by this page, and nothing is uploaded or saved.
Just the words from a Word document
Sometimes all you need from a Word file is its text: to paste into a web form, an email or a plain-text editor, to count the words, or to read it without Word. This tool reads the .docx file in your browser, with mammoth, an open-source converter, and gives you the text with no formatting to clean up.
How to use it
- Choose a .docx file, or drop it on the box. It can be up to 25 MB.
- Pick what goes between paragraphs: a blank line, or a single line break.
- Check the text and its word and character counts.
- Copy it, or download it as a .txt file in UTF-8, so accents and symbols come through as they are.
What comes through, and what doesn’t
- Kept: the words of every paragraph, heading and list item, in order; tabs; line breaks made with Shift+Enter; the text of links; text boxes, each after the paragraph it sits in; ☒ and ☐ for ticked and empty check boxes.
- Tables are flattened: each cell’s text comes on its own line, row by row, left to right.
- Left out: layout, fonts and styles, list bullets and numbers, images, link addresses, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes, comments and equations. The notes say when something else was skipped, such as a field.
- Tracked changes: deleted text is skipped and inserted text kept, as if every change were accepted.
Word 2007 and later only
The tool reads .docx, the format Word has saved in since Word 2007, and its template and macro versions. Macros are never run. An older .doc file needs saving as .docx first: open it in Word, choose Save As and pick Word Document (.docx). A password-protected file needs its password removed in Word.
Good to know
- Your document stays on your device. It’s read by this page, and isn’t uploaded, logged or saved.
- Counts follow the Word and Character Counter’s rules, so they match it; to count text you type or paste, use that page instead.
- Got a PDF? PDF to Text gets the text out of PDFs; this page reads Word files only.
- Want the formatting too? Word to HTML keeps headings, lists, links and tables.