# Export as Word

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, package, markdown\
**Created:** [November 20, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518 "2020-11-20T21:18:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/1 "2020-11-20T21:18:12Z")

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How do I export a Julia Markdown as a .doc or .docx document

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**Author:** ![tikej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tikej](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tikej)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/2 "2020-11-20T21:33:45Z")

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Your best bet is probably using [pandoc](https://pandoc.org) to export Markdown to .doc/.docx

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**Author:** ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/3 "2020-11-20T21:36:10Z")

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Ok thanks, how do I set up Pandocs?

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**Author:** ![tikej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tikej](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tikej)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/4 "2020-11-20T21:39:36Z")

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I suggest looking on installation page at their website:  
[https://pandoc.org/installing.html](https://pandoc.org/installing.html)  
and then reading rest of documentation.

I wouldn’t expect it to work perfectly without some tinkering though.

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**Author:** ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/5 "2020-11-20T21:57:40Z")

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Does it matter where I unzip the binaries? I take it I need to set up a path.

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**Author:** ![tikej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tikej](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tikej)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/6 "2020-11-20T23:10:39Z")

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Sorry, I have no idea. Perhaps other people from [Pandoc - Help](https://pandoc.org/help.html) could help.

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**Author:** ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/7 "2020-11-21T04:57:11Z")

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I didn’t get it to work, but I got it set up, I think. It looked like it tried to make a pdf, then failed because: margins.

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**Author:** ![dpsanders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dpsanders/32/3573_2.png) [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/8 "2020-11-21T07:31:41Z")

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I use a packager manager to install binaries whenever possible, e.g. `brew` on Mac or  
[Chocolatey Software | Pandoc 2.19.2](https://chocolatey.org/packages/pandoc) on Windows.

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**Author:** ![GunnarFarneback](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gunnarfarneback/32/1827_2.png) [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/export-as-word/50518/9 "2020-11-21T12:29:11Z")

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If you want to use pandoc from a Julia program rather than interactively, the by far easiest installation is to `Pkg.add` the `pandoc_jll` package.

Example use

```julia
julia> using pandoc_jll

julia> pandoc() do pandoc
           run(`$pandoc --version`)
       end;
pandoc 2.9.2.1
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.20, texmath 0.12.0.1, skylighting 0.8.3.2
Default user data directory: /home/gunnar/.local/share/pandoc or /home/gunnar/.pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2020 John MacFarlane
Web: https://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose.

```