Write or paste Markdown and watch it render as the Word document you will export. Tables, code, math and diagrams. Download as .docx, PDF or HTML when you are done.
Meeting Notes — 4 Sep
Attendees: Priya, Tom, Léa
| Metric | Target |
|---|---|
| Activation rate | 45% |
| Support tickets / week | < 30 |
Next review: 18 Sep
Plain Markdown on the left. Your draft is saved to this browser as you type, so a closed tab is not a lost document.
The preview is not a web page. It is the Word document you will get, same font, same page width, same table borders.
Word, PDF or HTML. Or copy as rich text and paste into Google Docs, Notion or an email.
Most online Markdown editors preview your text as a web page with the editor's own styling. That is fine while you write, but the moment you export to Word the document looks different: the font changes, tables grow borders, code blocks lose their shading, and headings that looked large online come out small. You end up fixing the export by hand, which was the thing Markdown was supposed to spare you.
This editor renders the preview with the same engine that produces the .docx. The pane on the right uses the body font you picked, the A4 or Letter page width you picked, and the exact heading sizes, table borders and code shading that will be written into the file. What you see is not an approximation of the document, it is the document, before it has been zipped.
CommonMark and GitHub-flavored Markdown: nested lists, ordered lists that restart, task lists, pipe tables with alignment, fenced code with a language tag, blockquotes, footnotes, images by URL, and front matter that is stripped rather than printed. LaTeX between dollar signs and Mermaid code blocks are rendered live in the preview so you can check them; exporting them into the file is a Pro feature.
Your draft is written to this browser's local storage after every change. Reopen the page tomorrow and the text is still there. Nothing is sent to a server, which also means we cannot read it and there is nothing to breach. If you want drafts that follow you between devices and a history of past exports, that is what a Pro account adds.
Tab indents list items, Shift-Tab outdents. Ctrl-B and Ctrl-I wrap the selection in bold and italic markers. Ctrl-K inserts a link. Ctrl-Enter downloads the current export format. The editor is a plain textarea underneath, so every browser shortcut you already know for text works too.
When the document is right, choose Word, PDF or HTML and download. The Word file has real heading styles so its table of contents and navigation pane work. The PDF paginates properly, with headings kept next to their text. The HTML is clean and semantic. Or skip the file altogether: "Copy as rich text" puts formatted content on the clipboard that pastes cleanly into Google Docs, Outlook, Notion and Confluence.
Because you are already writing in Markdown. AI assistants produce it, GitHub speaks it, Obsidian and Notion export it. Rewriting a page of Markdown as Word formatting by hand takes ten minutes and gets done badly. Pasting it here and pressing download takes ten seconds.
| What matters | MDtoDOCX editor | Typical web editor | Desktop editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preview matches the exported Word file | Yes, same engine | No, web styling | Varies |
| Export to .docx with real heading styles | Yes | Rarely | Often via Pandoc |
| Export to PDF with proper pagination | Yes | Browser print | Yes |
| Works without sign-up | Yes | Sometimes | Needs install |
| Drafts stay on your device | Yes | Usually synced to their cloud | Yes |
| Math and Mermaid preview | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
$ signs and Mermaid code blocks render live so you can check them. Exporting them into Word or PDF is a Pro feature.