--- title: "DOCX to HTML" description: "Drop a Word .docx and get clean semantic HTML for a CMS, a blog or an email editor. Headings, lists, links, tables and emphasis are kept; fonts and layout are not. Nothing is uploaded." url: https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-html/ category: convert --- # DOCX to HTML Drop a Word .docx and get clean semantic HTML for a CMS, a blog or an email editor. Headings, lists, links, tables and emphasis are kept; fonts and layout are not. Nothing is uploaded. **Use this tool:** [DOCX to HTML](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-html/) ## Programmatic access - Browser-only: this tool works on a file, the DOM, or a browser API and has no REST or MCP id. ## Why Use Our DOCX to HTML Converter? Marketing briefs, help articles and policies get written in Word because that is where the people writing them live. Websites, blogs and email editors want HTML. Word's own Save as Web Page writes markup full of vendor-specific tags, inline styles and conditional comments, and pasting into a CMS editor drags that styling along with it. This page reads the .docx in the tab and writes semantic HTML that keeps the structure a page needs — headings, paragraphs, lists, links, tables, bold and italic — and drops the fonts, colours and page layout a website styles for itself. Preview it, copy the fragment into the editor, or download a complete .html file. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What parts of the Word document are kept, and what is lost? Kept: headings that use Word's Heading styles, paragraphs, bold and italic, underline and strikethrough, hyperlinks, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, and images if you turn the option on. Lost: fonts, colours, font sizes, text alignment, columns, page breaks, headers, footers and page layout. A website styles those for itself, so they are dropped rather than written as inline styles. ### Should I download the full document or copy the fragment? Copy the fragment when the HTML goes into a CMS, a blog editor, a knowledge base or an email editor: those want the body only and apply their own styling. Download the full document when you want a standalone .html file that opens in a browser on its own; it carries a title and a small stylesheet so it reads well without any site around it. ### Why is the output better than Word's Save as Web Page? Word's web export writes markup meant to round-trip back into Word: vendor-specific tags, class names, inline styles and conditional comments. This converter writes only the semantic tags a page needs — headings, paragraphs, lists, links, tables and emphasis — with no classes and no inline styles, so nothing has to be cleaned out before publishing. ### What happens to images? By default they are left out and the count is shown, because most sites keep images in a media library and a single embedded photo can be larger than the rest of the HTML. Turn on Include images as data URLs and each image is embedded as a base64 data URL inside the HTML, which is self-contained but large. Either way, the text around the image is unaffected. ### Can it read an old .doc file? No. A .doc is a binary format from before 2007 and is not a zip of XML. Open it in Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs and save it as .docx, then drop that. The page recognises a .doc by its first bytes and tells you this instead of failing silently. ### The file is password-protected. Why is it refused? A password-protected .docx is encrypted and wrapped in the same container format as a legacy .doc, so it cannot be unpacked without the password, and this page does not ask for one. Remove the protection in Word (File, Info, Protect Document) and save, then drop the unprotected file. ### Is my document uploaded? No. The .docx is unpacked and converted in your browser. Nothing about the document is sent to FindUtils or to any other server, and you can confirm that in the network panel while converting. The preview is a sandboxed frame that is not allowed to load anything from the network either. ### Do tables convert? Yes, to <table> with a row per Word row and a cell per Word cell; each cell holds a paragraph. Merged cells and nested tables come through as mammoth.js reads them, so check a complex table in the Preview before publishing. The full-document stylesheet draws cell borders; a CMS applies its own table styling to the fragment. ### Can I convert a Google Docs document? Yes. In Google Docs choose File, Download, Microsoft Word (.docx), then drop the downloaded file here. Google's export uses Heading styles and real lists, so the HTML comes out clean. ### Can I go the other way, from HTML to Word? Yes. The HTML to DOCX converter on FindUtils builds a .docx from pasted or dropped HTML, with headings, lists, tables and hyperlinks. Together the two pages make the round trip without leaving the site. For Markdown instead of HTML, use DOCX to Markdown on the same file. ## Related Tools - [HTML to DOCX](https://findutils.com/convert/html-to-docx/) - [DOCX to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-markdown/) - [HTML to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/html-to-markdown/) - [Markdown to Word](https://findutils.com/convert/markdown-to-word/) - [Word to PDF Converter](https://findutils.com/convert/word-to-pdf/) - [HTML Formatter](https://findutils.com/developers/html-formatter/) - [Markdown Previewer](https://findutils.com/developers/markdown-previewer/)