How to Convert Word to Text Online for Free
Our Word to Text converter pulls the raw words out of a .docx file and hands them back as a clean plain-text file. It strips every hidden Word style, font, and layout instruction, leaving just the content you can drop into any editor, CMS, or data pipeline.
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DOCX to TXT: what your download contains
Upload a .docx document and download converted.txt encoded as UTF-8. Paragraph text remains readable, while fonts, colours and page layout are removed. For example, a bold heading becomes an ordinary line of text. This is useful for copying an article into a CMS or preparing notes without bringing Word styles along. Text inside images is not extracted: that requires OCR.
Why convert Word to plain text
Word documents carry a surprising amount of invisible baggage: style definitions, font records, tracked-change history, and layout metadata. When you paste that into a website editor, a code project, or a data tool, the hidden formatting often causes messy spacing, broken markup, or import errors. Converting to plain text gives you nothing but the words, which is exactly what content systems and scripts want. Writers, developers, and data teams use it to get clean copy that behaves predictably wherever it lands.
What is kept and what is removed
Plain text has no concept of styling, so bold, italics, headings, colours, fonts, tables, and embedded images are all removed during conversion. What survives is the textual content itself, including the line breaks between paragraphs, so the document stays readable as a sequence of plain lines. This is a deliberate simplification: the output is lightweight, universal, and free of the formatting noise that causes problems downstream. If you need the styling preserved, a format like HTML or PDF is the right target instead.
Why plain text is so useful
A .txt file is the most portable document format there is. It opens in every text editor, imports cleanly into spreadsheets and databases, feeds neatly into translation and analysis tools, and pastes into content management systems without dragging Word styles along. It is also tiny, easy to version-control, and perfectly suited to automated processing. Stripping a document down to plain text is often the first step in migrating content, preparing data, or cleaning up copy before reformatting it the way you actually want.
Common use cases
People convert Word to text to migrate article copy into a CMS without messy markup, to prepare clean source text for developers and scripts, to feed documents into translation or summarisation tools, and to extract content for spreadsheets and data analysis. It is also handy for quickly grabbing the readable content of a document for an email or note where formatting would only get in the way. Whenever you want the words and nothing else, this is the conversion to reach for.
Word to Text - Frequently Asked Questions
Will images be included in the text output?
No. Images and other embedded media are stripped during conversion. Only the raw text content is extracted.
Are headings and formatting preserved?
No. The output is plain text, so visual formatting such as bold, italics, and headings is removed. The text itself, including paragraph line breaks, is kept.
What file types can I upload?
This tool accepts .docx documents and returns a UTF-8 .txt file. For an older .doc file, open it in Word or LibreOffice and save a .docx copy first. Renaming the extension does not convert the document.
Why would I want plain text instead of keeping Word formatting?
Plain text avoids hidden Word styles that cause messy pasting into websites, code, and data tools. It is portable, lightweight, and predictable everywhere.
Will tables survive the conversion?
Table styling and grid lines are removed, but the text inside the cells is extracted. You would need to re-structure it manually if you want a table again.
Is it free with a size limit?
Yes, it is free with no registration, and each Word document can be up to 50MB.