Saving Markdown as a Word document (.docx) you can keep editing

Pasting into Word works for a page of text. When you want a file you can attach, rename and hand to someone who will edit it, a download is better. Save as Word produces a .docx straight from your Markdown, in the browser, with nothing uploaded.

What you get

The file is a genuine Word document, not a picture of one. That means:

• Real headings. A # becomes Heading 1, ## becomes Heading 2 and so on, so the Navigation pane and any table of contents work.
• Real lists. Bullets are bullets, and each numbered list restarts at 1 instead of carrying on from the one before.
• Real tables. Cells you can click into, resize and add rows to.
• Selectable, editable text throughout.

The styling is deliberately plain: black on white, with hierarchy from weight and size rather than colour. It prints cleanly and does not fight whatever template you apply afterwards.

What does not travel

Two things cannot live in a text document the same way, so they are handled openly rather than lost silently:

• Images are replaced with a short bracketed placeholder naming the image.
• Diagrams get the same treatment.

If a picture matters, add it in Word afterwards, or use Markdown to image to make a PNG and insert that.

Word, PDF or paste?

You want	Use
A file someone else will edit	Save as Word
A file that looks the same everywhere and is not edited	Save as PDF
To drop formatted text into a document you already have open	Rich text, then paste
Text for an email or a form field	Plain text

A tip for long documents

Check the headings before you save. Word builds its outline from them, so a document that jumps from # to ### ends up with a gap in the structure that someone will have to fix by hand. A quick read of the preview is enough to catch it.