Why not just use "Save as Web Page"?
Microsoft Word can save documents as HTML, but the result is full of Office-specific markup: mso- style rules, conditional comments, font declarations on every span and XML namespaces. Pasting from Word into a CMS often brings similar clutter along. This Word to HTML converter takes a different approach: it reads the structure of the .docx file itself and writes only clean, semantic HTML elements, which your website's stylesheet can then style consistently.
Example
A document with a Heading 1, a paragraph containing a bold word and a link, and a bulleted list becomes:
<h1>Quarterly Report</h1>
<p>Revenue grew <strong>12%</strong> compared with last quarter. See the <a href="https://example.com/details">full details</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>New customers: 340</li>
<li>Churn: 2.1%</li>
</ul>The status line summarizes the conversion, for example "Converted: 14 paragraphs, 3 headings, 2 lists, 1 table, 2 images, 3 links".
What the Word to HTML converter keeps
- Headings – paragraphs using Word's Title or Heading 1–6 styles (or custom styles based on them, or with an outline level) become
<h1>–<h6>. - Text formatting – bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript become
strong,em,u,s,supandsub. - Lists – bulleted and numbered lists, including nested levels and letter or Roman numbering, become
<ul>and<ol>. - Tables – with merged cells converted to
colspanandrowspan, and repeated header rows to<th>cells. - Links – external hyperlinks and links to bookmarks.
- Images – embedded pictures are included as Base64 data URIs with their alt text and width, so the HTML is self-contained.
- Tracked changes – insertions are kept and deletions removed, giving you the document as it would read with all changes accepted.
Options
- Images – turn off to skip images, which keeps the HTML small when you plan to upload images separately.
- Underline – keep or drop underlining; on the web, underlined text is easily mistaken for a link.
- Alignment – add
text-alignstyles for centered, right-aligned and justified paragraphs. - Empty paragraphs – keep blank paragraphs that some authors use for spacing, or drop them (default) for cleaner markup.
Limitations to be aware of
The converter deliberately focuses on content and structure, so some things do not carry over:
- Fonts, font sizes, text colors and highlight colors are dropped; your site's CSS should control them.
- Headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes and comments are not included.
- Text boxes, shapes, SmartArt, charts and equations are not converted; pictures inside drawings are exported as images where possible.
- Page layout, columns, page breaks and section settings have no equivalent in a flowing web page.
- Only
.docxis supported. Older binary.docfiles must first be saved as .docx in Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs.
Documents that rely on manual formatting (bold, large text instead of real Heading styles) will come out as bold paragraphs rather than headings. Applying Word's heading styles before converting gives the best, most accessible result.
After converting
Tidy the indentation with the HTML formatter, preview the result in the HTML viewer, or turn it into Markdown for a docs site with HTML to Markdown. The .docx file is unzipped and parsed entirely in your browser, so confidential documents are never uploaded.