Exactly convert docs to plain text (including list styles)

Nazmus Shakib — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:37:54 +0000

Hello everyone. I want to introduce you to a simple yet effective day-to-day solution for the exact conversion of rich text to plain text. Traditional converters do not maintain the ordered/unordered list style when converting. This leads to some scrambled text to maintain.

This docs-to-plain-text will 100% keep your formatting. It has two modes: Paste and Upload. Everything happens in your browser. Your file is not uploaded to a server.

For the above rich text, the exact plain text would look like

Try it out here.

Exactly convert the Docs text to plain text

Nazmus Shakib — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:46:19 +0000

Regular converters do not preserve the exact formatting when converting from a doc file to plain text.
This site preserves the exact formatting of your text. For example, Image-1 is the text you want to convert to plain text. Image-2 is the converted text. You can upload a .docx file too. Everything happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server.

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Exactly convert docs to plain text (including list styles)

Try it out here.

Exactly convert the Docs text to plain text