How to paste ChatGPT into Word with real headings
Paste the answer into the converter below, copy it as rich text, and paste that into your Word document.
Word pastes HTML as styled text, and it maps HTML headings onto its own built-in styles. An h1 becomes Heading 1, so it appears in the navigation pane, in the outline view, and in any table of contents you generate. That mapping is the reason to paste rich text into Word rather than retyping the answer.
ChatGPT copies its answer as plain Markdown, so Word receives a long run of Normal paragraphs with hash marks and asterisks inside them. Nothing lands in the navigation pane, the numbered list is not a list, and the table you asked for is a wall of pipe characters.
Unmark converts the Markdown to HTML and RTF before it reaches the clipboard, so Word gets structure it already knows how to style.
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Do it once with Unmark
Copy the answer in ChatGPT. Open Unmark from the menu bar, or press the hotkey, and click Copy as rich text. Paste into Word, then check the navigation pane: the headings are there.
If you would rather hand over a file than a paste, Pro exports the same answer as a .docx that opens in Word and Pages with its headings, lists and tables intact.