How to Convert Word to Markdown

This guide will explain how to convert a word file to a markdown file.

Tools

• Pandoc
• terminal
• A word file

Steps

1. Open a terminal.

2. Change the directory in your terminal with the cd command (Figure 1).

    cd directory
   

3. Navigate to your word file in the terminal.

4. Use the pandoc command to covert your word file.

    pandoc -s source_file.docx -o destination_file.md
   

   Note if you want to convert images as well, used the following command.

    pandoc -s source_file.docx -t markdown --extract-media=images -o destination_file.md
   

5. Clean up the newly created file.

Images

Figure 1: Using the cd command to switch directories.

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