Rich Text to Markdown

Copying from Word, Google Docs, Outlook, Notion, or a web page puts two versions on your clipboard: plain text and HTML. A plain Markdown editor takes the text version and loses every heading, list, and table. This tool reads the HTML version instead, strips the junk those apps inject — <o:p> tags, mso- styles, Mso classes, empty spans, non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters, and the Google Docs <b style="font-weight:normal"> wrapper — and converts the rest to GitHub Flavored Markdown. Tables, task lists, and strikethrough are supported, and a toggle collapses extra blank lines. When the clipboard has no rich-text flavour, the plain text is used unchanged. Everything runs in your browser.

Paste formatted content — a Word document, a Google Doc, an email, a Notion page, or a web page selection — into the box below. The tool reads the rich-text (HTML) flavour your clipboard already carries and converts it to Markdown. You never see or handle the HTML. Use HTML to Markdown instead when you have the HTML source code itself and want to paste that as text.

Clean up extra blank lines

Paste here

Click this box, then press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on Mac). Formatted text converts the moment you paste. Nothing is inserted here on purpose — the Markdown appears on the right.

Markdown Output

What gets cleaned

Word artefacts: <o:p> tags, Office namespace tags, mso- styles, Mso classes, and conditional comments.
Google Docs artefacts: the <b style="font-weight:normal"> wrapper that would otherwise bold the whole document, plus its per-run spans.
Invisible characters: non-breaking spaces, zero-width spaces and joiners, byte-order marks, and soft hyphens.
Style, class, id, width, and height attributes, then empty spans and empty paragraphs.
Tables, strikethrough, and task lists convert to GitHub Flavored Markdown.

Limitations: images keep the source URL, so a Google Docs image points at a Google host rather than a local file. Word comments, tracked changes, and footnotes are not in the clipboard HTML, so they cannot be converted. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Paste-to-Markdown guides

Exact answers for the sources people paste from: Word, Google Docs, email, Notion, and web pages full of formatting junk.

Word to MarkdownCopy from Word, paste into the tool, get Markdown. The clipboard already carries an HTML version of the selection, so headings, lists, and tables survive the trip.Google Docs to MarkdownGoogle Docs puts a b style=font-weight:normal wrapper around every copied selection. Left in place it bolds the entire document. This tool removes it before converting.Email to MarkdownOutlook and Gmail messages are HTML with inline styles, mso- declarations, and non-breaking spaces. Paste the message body here to get readable Markdown instead.Notion Page to MarkdownNotion's export produces a zip file. For one page, selecting the blocks and pasting them here is faster and gives you Markdown directly.Clean Pasted Formattingmso- styles, empty spans, non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters, and stray blank lines all ride along in a rich-text paste. Here is what the tool removes and what it keeps.

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About Rich Text to Markdown

Paste formatted content from Word, Google Docs, email, Notion, or a web page and get clean Markdown. Reads the clipboard's rich-text flavour — no HTML source needed. This tool runs entirely in your browser, so your content is not sent to a server. MarkdownMe provides free, fast, and reliable Markdown tools for developers, writers, and anyone who works with Markdown.