Convert, edit, and transform Word, ODT, RTF, HTML and more — right in your browser. No installs, no sign-up, no waiting.
Nine tools for getting content into an editable Word document and back out again — grouped by direction. Everything runs in your browser, free, with no sign-up.
Get content out of another format and into an editable document.
Take a document somewhere it will hold its shape, or strip it back.
Document formats disagree with each other in specific, predictable ways. These are the choices that most often go wrong.
Open it and try to select a sentence. If the text highlights, PDF to Word will give you a real document. If nothing highlights, it is a scan — a photograph of a page with no text inside — and needs OCR first.
Nothing is broken. A Word document genuinely is a ZIP archive internally, so some browsers and mail clients label it that way. Rename it back to .docx and it opens. If the file really is an archive of several documents, ZIP to Word pulls them out.
A .txt file carries no record of which character encoding it uses, so software has to guess. Save the original as UTF-8 before running TXT to Word and the accents survive. It cannot be repaired afterwards.
Word puts a full HTML document on your clipboard, complete with Microsoft-specific style rules that override your theme. Word to HTML reads the document's real structure instead — but apply Word's built-in heading styles first, or big bold text stays a bold paragraph rather than becoming a real heading.
Word to PDF is almost always the right answer. A Word file only names its fonts and hopes the recipient has them, which is why layouts shift between machines. A PDF carries its own fonts and looks identical everywhere.
If you cannot place a cursor in it, no converter can read it — it is pixels, not text. Image to Document uses OCR to recognise the characters, and the result always needs proofreading before you rely on it.
Word describes a document by its structure — this is a heading, this is a list, this paragraph uses the body style — and decides where things land on the page when the file opens. That flexibility is what makes it good for writing and awkward for sharing: change the fonts, the paper size or the version of Word, and the pagination moves.
Every conversion here is a trade between structure and appearance, and each tool page sets out exactly what carries across and what does not. Nothing needs installing, and no format is treated as a black box.
Working with something else? Browse PDF tools, Excel tools for spreadsheets, PPTX tools for presentations, and image tools for pictures and scans.