About Document Editor
Document Editor is a browser-based word processor for everyday writing — meeting notes, briefs, blog drafts, college essays. Built on TipTap, it covers headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, images, alignment, text colour and undo/redo. Your work is autosaved to IndexedDB after every keystroke, so closing the tab never loses anything. Open and edit existing .docx files and export back to Word (.docx) or HTML. It isn't a Microsoft Word clone — there's no track-changes or footnotes — but it's capable enough to be the only writing app you need 90% of the time.
- No uploads
- Browser-only
- Works offline
- 100% free
How it works
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Start writing — or open a file
Start with a blank page, or drop a .docx and edit it inline. Headings, bold, italics, lists, tables, images and links all behave like a normal word processor.
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Autosave runs in the background
Every edit is persisted to IndexedDB. Refresh the tab or reopen tomorrow and your document is exactly as you left it — no save button, no lost work.
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Export to .docx or HTML
Download as Word (.docx) for sharing, or HTML for blog publishing. The Word export emits real OOXML so the file opens cleanly in Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice.
An editor that doesn't quietly eat your document
The failure mode of most browser-based .docx editors is invisible and expensive: you open a report, fix a typo, save, and the file comes back without its tables, its pictures, its colours or its links. Nothing warns you. The editor only ever understood text and bold, so everything it didn't understand went in the bin on the way in — and a document editor that eats documents is worse than no document editor.
This one keeps what it reads. Per-run fonts, sizes and colours, highlights, strikethrough, superscript and subscript, alignment, indents, spacing, real numbered and bulleted lists, tables with their column widths and shading, inline images re-embedded from their original bytes, hyperlinks with their targets, and the page setup all survive being opened and saved.
The things it still can't do, said plainly
- Footnotes, endnotes and comments aren't kept. A document that has them will lose them on save.
- Tracked changes can't be shown as tracked, and saving accepts every one of them — a decision you never made. Opening a document with any pending changes warns you, loudly, rather than making that call for you. Review them in Word first.
- Text boxes, shapes, charts and SmartArt aren't supported.
- Vertically merged table cells flatten into ordinary cells.
Page numbers are fields, not typed numbers
This matters more than it sounds. Type '1' into a footer and you have the number one, on every page, forever. Word's page numbers are a field — an instruction that says 'count' — and Word fills it in when the document opens or repaginates.
So the page-number presets insert a real PAGE field, and a document that already had one keeps it as a field rather than freezing whatever number happened to be cached. It's the difference between a footer that stays right when you insert a page and one that quietly lies.
Where this fits
It's for the edit you need to make now, on a machine that doesn't have Word, to a file you'd rather not upload anywhere — a contract clause, a name in a template, a figure in a report. Everything runs in the tab; the document never reaches a server, which is the whole reason it's safe for anything confidential.
It isn't a replacement for Word on a long authoring session. If you're writing from scratch, laying out something complex, or working with anything in the 'can't do' list above, use Word. If you're fixing something, this will do it in ten seconds without an install.
Need a PDF at the end? Save the .docx and run it through Word to PDF, which reads the document's own formatting rather than re-typesetting it.
Related guides
All guidesFrequently asked questions about Document Editor
How is my work saved?
Inside your browser's IndexedDB store, which is durable across sessions, tab closes and reboots. It's per-browser and per-device though — your document on Chrome at work isn't visible from Safari at home. For backup, export to .docx and keep the file in your usual cloud sync (Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud).
Is this a Microsoft Word replacement?
Not quite. There's no track-changes, no comments, no equations, no footnotes/endnotes, and no real-time collaboration. What it does have is solid round-tripping for the common 90% of formatting (headings, bold/italic, lists, tables, images, alignment) — enough for most everyday writing, faster to open, and entirely private.
Can I open .docx files made in Word?
Yes. Drop a .docx and the editor parses paragraphs, headings, bold/italic, lists, tables and inline images. Very complex formatting (multi-column layouts, embedded charts, footnotes) is approximated or dropped — for those, edit in Word and only round-trip simple documents through this tool.
Privacy, offline use, browser support, and pricing questions are answered on the site-wide FAQ.