Prepare the document in its original editor
Use standard DOCX rather than renaming a binary DOC file. Resolve tracked changes, fields, equations and hidden text yourself. The tool rejects those ambiguous structures, along with nested or merged tables. Keep the original document because comments, footnotes, headers, pictures and text boxes do not enter the Markdown draft.
Check heading semantics instead of appearance
A large bold paragraph is not necessarily a heading. The converter reads explicit outline levels 1–6 from paragraphs or their styles, including inherited heading styles. Other paragraphs remain plain text. Bold, italics, indentation and automatic list numbering are not preserved. Review numbered procedures carefully and add any meaningful numbering in your Markdown editor.
Choose table headers deliberately
Generated Column 1, Column 2 labels preserve every original row as data. Use the first-row option only when each table really begins with a header. Multiline table cells use a br element and tab character references. Some Markdown readers support these features differently, so check the final reading surface as well as the text source.
Review escaped content and links
The output escapes source HTML and Markdown metacharacters so a literal string does not unexpectedly become raw HTML or an image. Hyperlink labels remain text without their destination. No linked resources are downloaded. The tool displays source text only; review and render it in your intended publishing system before sharing it.
Keep the right output for the next step
Download MD for editing and version control. Use Word to TXT for an unstructured body-text copy, or Word tables to Excel when tabular data is the main goal. None of these working copies is a complete archival replacement for a DOCX with notes, layout and embedded content.