Now, you can use the converted Markdown text in any other tool or for its designated purpose. Save a Markdown file as a Word document: Open Microsoft Word and open any Markdown file.

Manual Conversion

1. Open Notepad++ or any other editor that can save file in any format.
2. Create a new blank file.
3. Copy word file content to Notepad++ file.
4. Apply the markdown format manually e.g., write # before h1 heading, ## for h2 heading, etc.
5. Now, click on the Save toolbar or from File -> Save menu.

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax aimed at making writing for the internet easier. The philosophy behind Markdown is that plain text documents should be readable without tags mussing everything up, but there should still be ways to add text modifiers like lists, bold, italics, etc.

To summarize, this is a four-part process:

1. Create a Markdown file using a text editor or a dedicated Markdown application.
2. Open the Markdown file in a Markdown application.
3. Use the Markdown application to convert the Markdown file to an HTML document.

With Word you have tens or even hundreds of buttons to do different kinds of formatting. With Markdown it’s much easier as it only supports limited features and you can easily learn the syntax in less than an hour. Limited features also means, most of the time, more readable and structured output.

How to convert DOCX to MD

1. Open free GroupDocs App website and choose GroupDocs.Conversion application.
2. Click inside the file drop area to upload DOCX file or drag & drop DOCX file.
3. Click on Convert button.
4. You can also send a link to the MD file to your email address.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. When you create a Markdown-formatted file, you add Markdown syntax to the text to indicate which words and phrases should look different.

Markdown editors are simple and user-friendly text-to-HTML conversion tools for web content writers. Developers and content creators can use them to format lists, headers, and many other content features.

When you format text using Markdown in a document, it is similar to using the format tools (e.g. bold, heading 1, heading 2) in a word processing tool like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. However, instead of using buttons to apply formatting, you use syntax such as **this syntax bolds text in markdown** or # Here is a heading.

You can use any text editor to write Markdown, but we recommend Visual Studio Code with the Docs Authoring Pack. The Docs Authoring Pack provides editing tools and preview functionality that lets you see what your articles will look like when rendered on Docs.

If you copy from Word into a Markdown editor, the text might contain “smart” (curly) apostrophes or quotation marks. These need to be encoded or changed to basic apostrophes or quotation marks. Otherwise, you end up with things like this when the file is published: It’s

Where markdown files need to be repeated in multiple articles, you can use an include file. The includes feature instructs Docs to replace the reference with the contents of the include file at build time. You can use includes in the following ways: