Convert your ChatGPT conversations to your own pre-defined Word styles with style, precision and automation. Minimum Direct Formatting in Word, maximum order and tidiness (my🇨🇭roots). Slice the “• Bold: Explanations” of ChatGPT into an easier to read and outline “Heading 3 + bullet point” form.
ChatGPTtoWord (also known as ChatGPTtoRTF to the connoisseurs) is a Node.js JavaScript single-file utility that grabs the ChatGPT Markdown output from your clipboard (when you press OpenAI’s Copy button), converts it to the RTF format, and auto-matches it to your predefined Word styles (md to Word mapping which you can customize).
I also split “Prefixed With Bold:” bullet points that ChatGPT likes to create, such as:
- The Ultimate Knowledge: is never final, but undergoing epistemic inquiry…
into separate H3 and bullet points. Easier to read and ready for the automatic multilevel TOC at the top of your Word document as well.
The script also supports bold highlights, header hierarchy (up to 6 levels deep, but I haven’t seen ChatGPT dive lower than H3), inline code…
A bit of aesthetics for anyone who cares about visual structure, legibility, design… or anyone who likes to tame the information overload mess.
- converts Markdown to Word-compatible RTF format
- maps headings, lists, and styles directly to Word-defined formats
- changes US-style
Title CaseintoSentence casemore common in multilingual documents we use elsewhere on this planet (yes, again my case of a trilingual), while preserving acronyms (like LLM, USM or KVM) - auto-copies converted RTF directly to your clipboard, overwriting previous Markdown, for immediate pasting into Word
- offers customizable RTF settings for fonts, colors to suit your preferences
- Node.js (v14+)
- Word with styles pre-defined to match the script configuration
- clipboardy (npm package)
Note
If Node.js and npm aren’t your area of expertise, but you’d like the functionality, get in touch, and I’ll think of an automated installer.
Download the script (it’s just 1 JS logic file and 1 package meta JSON file) or clone this repo and navigate to the directory:
git clone https://github.com/anatolyivanov/ChatGPTtoWord.git
cd ChatGPTtoWord
npm installInstall the clipboardy package to enable automatic clipboard reading and writing:
npm install clipboardyNote
I prefer to use a global -g install of npm libraries into my /usr/local/lib/node_modules and add an alias to it instead, so that all projects are automatically up-to-date. I do test before upgrading. Much more common practice is to compartmentalize npm on a per-project basis. Choose whichever you prefer.
- index.js – the main script to convert Markdown to RTF and update clipboard content
- package.json – dependencies and basic info about this package
- docs/RTF_basics.md – an intro course of RTF arcana (if you want to tinker)
This script maps specific Markdown elements to pre-set Word styles. I’m using the following styles in Word (but, again, you can change those in the config:
| Markdown Element | Word Style | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Heading 1 | Heading 1 |
Main section titles |
| Heading 2 | Heading 2 |
Subsection titles |
| Heading 3 | Heading 3 |
Tertiary section titles |
| Bullets | Bullets level 1 |
Basic bullet points |
| Sub-Bullets | Bullets level 2 |
Secondary bullet points |
The RTF_STYLESHEET section of index.js defines which Word styles the script will map to. If you use different style names, change them here.
You might want to read docs/RTF_basics.md for fancier customizations. The idea remains the same: OpenAI outputs rather peculiar Markdown, you get to match them to your preferred Word Styles (ideally in a template).
The sky is the limit. Make it beautiful and easy to read for you.
- Copy your ChatGPT Markdown output to your clipboard.
- Run the script:
node index.js
- Paste into Word – Your ChatGPT markdown should now be pasted in your Word document, formatted with your predefined styles (
use destination styles), requiring minimal touch-up.
To speed up the workflow, add a shortcut to run this script directly from the terminal:
- Open your shell profile file:
nano ~/.bashrc # or ~/.zshrc for ZSH users
- Add an alias:
alias gpt2word="node ~/path_to_your_script/index.js"
- Save and reload the profile:
source ~/.bashrc # or ~/.zshrc for ZSH users
- Run the script anytime with:
gpt2word
Set bool_Debug to true in index.js to log both the original Markdown and the RTF output to the console before it updates your clipboard. Observe how Markdown converts to RTF.
Inside RTF_COLOR_TABLE and RTF_FONT_TABLE, you can modify fonts and colors to match your Word document’s aesthetic.
Contributions and feedback are welcome! Please fork the repository, make your changes, and submit a pull request.
This project is licensed under the terms outlined in the repo.