Export Markdown to Word (.docx)

To turn a Markdown file into a Word document on your Mac, open it in Unmarked and choose Export (⇧⌘E), then Word. You get a real .docx with Word heading styles, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, clickable links, and embedded images. It opens cleanly in Word and stays editable.

Most "Markdown to Word" converters hand you flat text: the headings look like headings but Word doesn't know they are, so the outline pane is empty and the styles don't apply. Unmarked builds a proper Word file instead.

Export to Word

1. Open your Markdown file in Unmarked.
2. Press ⇧⌘E, or choose File → Export.
3. Pick Word (.docx).
4. Choose where to save, then click Export.

That's the whole flow. Open the result in Word, Pages, or Google Docs and start editing.

What carries over

The export is structured, not a screenshot of your text. In the .docx:

• Headings use Word's built-in Heading 1 to 6 styles, so the document outline and navigation pane work, and you can restyle every heading at once.
• Bulleted and numbered lists are real Word lists, with nesting intact. Hit Enter and Word continues the list.
• Tables are real Word tables you can edit cell by cell.
• Links are clickable.
• Local images are embedded in the file, so the .docx travels on its own with nothing to relink.
• A rendered Mermaid diagram comes across as an embedded image.

Text lands at standard document sizing, about 11-point body with Word's real heading styles at their normal sizes. Export styling is fixed and predictable. The reading and writing fonts you set in Unmarked stay in the editor. They don't follow the document into Word, so a teammate opening the file sees the same clean layout no matter how you have Unmarked configured.

Heads up: footnotes ([^1]) and math ($…$) carry into the .docx as plain text. A web-linked image (https://…) lands as its alt text, while an image sitting next to your file embeds in the document. (Here's why.)

Where the file is built

The .docx is assembled on your Mac. Unmarked has no network access, so the document you hand off is never routed through anyone else's server on its way to becoming Word.

Need Word formatting in an email or chat instead?

If you're pasting into Mail, Slack, Google Docs, or Notion rather than handing off a file, skip the export. Select your text and press ⌥⌘C to Copy as Rich Text; what arrives is formatted text with none of the Markdown symbols.