How to convert rich text to Markdown
Paste formatted text from Word, Google Docs, or a web page and get clean Markdown — keeping the bold, links, and lists while dropping the hidden styling.
When you copy from Word, Google Docs, or a web page, your clipboard carries rich text — formatting wrapped in hidden HTML. Paste it into a Markdown editor and you either lose the formatting or import a mess. Rich Text to Markdown converts that formatted content into clean Markdown.
What it keeps and what it drops
The converter preserves the formatting that has meaning and discards the rest:
- Keeps: headings, bold, italic, links, bulleted and numbered lists, blockquotes, and tables.
- Drops: fonts, colors, sizes, background shading, and the wrapper markup editors inject.
You end up with the structure and emphasis of the original — not its visual styling, which Markdown intentionally leaves to the destination.
Where it shines
- Moving a Google Doc into a Markdown CMS or static site without retyping.
- Turning a Word draft into Markdown for a repo or wiki.
- Cleaning content from the web that you want to keep as portable text.
How it differs from related tools
This tool focuses on formatted text from word processors and the web. If you specifically have raw HTML, HTML to Markdown is the direct route; if you're grabbing a whole page, URL to Markdown is built for that; and Clipboard to Markdown is the fastest path when you just want to paste-and-go.
Privacy
Conversion happens in your browser, so confidential drafts and internal documents are never uploaded.
A quick cleanup
Word processors sometimes mark a heading as plain bold text. After converting, promote any titles that came through as **bold** to real # headings, and your document is ready.
Stop fighting paste. Copy the formatted text, convert, and keep working in Markdown.