Word to Text

Sometimes you only need the words. This tool opens a Word document in your browser and writes its text to a plain .txt file, saved as UTF-8 so every language and emoji survives. Nothing is uploaded, which makes it safe for contracts, CVs and internal documents.

The text stays readable rather than becoming one long block. Headings sit on their own lines, paragraphs are separated by a single blank line, bulleted items start with a dash and numbered items with their number, with nested items indented two spaces. Tables become one line per row with the cells separated by tabs, so you can paste them straight into a spreadsheet. Tabs inside paragraphs are kept, too.

Everything that isn't text is dropped: fonts, bold and italics, colors, images, headers, footers and comments. Footnotes are kept as a numbered list at the end.