How to convert a Markdown table to a Word table

Pasting a Markdown table into Word gives you rows of pipes and dashes. Markdown to Word turns it into a real Word table you can resize, restyle, and sort.

Step by step

1. Copy your Markdown, table and all. It can be a whole document or just the table.
2. Paste it into md2word.app and click Convert to Word.
3. Download the .docx, or click Copy formatted text and paste into an open Word or Google Docs document.

Conversion happens in your browser, and nothing is uploaded.

What a table needs

Markdown to Word reads GitHub Flavored Markdown tables (the table syntax GitHub, ChatGPT, and most editors use): a header row, a separator row of dashes, and then the data rows, with cells divided by pipes.

| Plan | Price | Seats |
| ---- | ----- | ----- |
| Free | $0    | 1     |
| Team | $8    | 10    |

The outer pipes are optional, and the columns don’t need to line up.

What you get in Word

• A bordered table with thin gray grid lines, like GitHub draws.
• A header row that repeats at the top of every page when a long table spans several pages.
• Formatting inside cells: bold, italic, strikethrough, code, and links all carry over.
• Column alignment: colons in the separator row (:---:, ---:) center or right-align the column.
• Everything else in the document converts too: headings, lists, code blocks, and more.

Things to know

• No merged cells. Markdown tables don’t have them, so neither will the Word table. Merge cells in Word afterward if you need to.
• A pipe inside a cell must be written as \|, or Markdown reads it as a new column.

Going the other way

To turn a Word table back into Markdown, use Word to Markdown, the sibling converter by the same maker.

Convert Markdown to Word now. It's free, and nothing is uploaded.