Word Template Exporter for Obsidian

Export Obsidian notes to Microsoft Word (.docx) using powerful, customizable templates — from academic standards to fully custom document styles.

Word Template Exporter is an Obsidian plugin that converts Markdown notes into professionally formatted Word documents using template-based formatting rules, not hardcoded styles.

The plugin is designed for:

• academic writing
• technical documentation
• reports, theses, and articles
• structured documents with strict formatting requirements

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✨ Key Features

• 📄 Export to DOCX (Microsoft Word compatible)

• 🧩 Template-based formatting (presets, not hardcoded rules)

• 🎨 Visual template editor + raw JSON editor

• 🔁 Instant sync between visual editor and JSON

• 🌍 Multilingual UI (auto-detected from Obsidian)

• 📚 Built-in academic standards

  • APA 7
  • IEEE
  • GOST (Russian standards)

• 📐 Fine-grained control over:

  • fonts and font sizes
  • paragraph spacing
  • alignment and indents
  • headings hierarchy
  • tables, captions, figures
  • page margins and pagination

• 📑 Optional automatic Table of Contents (Word TOC)

• ⚡ Fast export with a single command

Note Built-in templates are provided as ready-to-use presets and can be freely customized.

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🧠 How It Works

1. You write notes in plain Markdown inside Obsidian
2. The plugin parses the document into a structured internal model
3. A template (preset) defines how each block type should look in Word
4. The document is exported to .docx using these rules

This approach avoids:

• fragile Markdown → Word conversions
• manual post-editing in Word
• duplicated styles across documents

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🖼 Screenshots

(Screenshots will be added here)

Export options modal

Visual template editor

Visual ↔ JSON synchronization

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📦 Installation

Manual installation (from GitHub)

1. Download the repository:

   https://github.com/LekasNet/obsidian-word-template-exporter
   

2. Rename the plugin folder to:

   word-template-exporter
   

3. Copy the folder into your Obsidian vault:

   <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/word-template-exporter
   

4. Restart Obsidian

5. Enable Word Template Exporter in Settings → Community Plugins

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🚀 Usage

Fast Export

• Command:

  Export note to Word — Fast
  

• Uses the default template and export settings

Advanced Export

• Command:

  Export note to Word — Advanced…
  

• Allows configuration of:

  • template (preset)
  • page numbering
  • table of contents
  • page break handling

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🧩 Templates (Presets)

A template defines how each document block is formatted:

• Headings (H1–H6)
• Body text
• Tables (text, headers, captions)
• Figures and captions
• Code listings

Templates can be:

• edited visually
• edited as JSON
• imported/exported
• reused across projects

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📚 Built-in Standards & Templates

Word Template Exporter includes several built-in formatting standards, covering both international and region-specific academic requirements.

These templates are provided as ready-to-use presets and can also serve as a base for custom templates.

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🌍 International Standards

APA 7

A template based on the APA 7th edition guidelines, commonly used for:

• academic papers
• research articles
• theses and dissertations

The preset follows standard APA formatting rules for:

• headings hierarchy
• paragraph spacing
• fonts and alignment
• page layout

IEEE

A template inspired by IEEE document formatting, suitable for:

• technical papers
• engineering reports
• conference submissions

The IEEE preset focuses on:

• compact layout
• strict hierarchy
• technical readability

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🇷🇺 Russian Standards (GOST)

In addition to international formats, the plugin includes built-in GOST-based templates, widely used in Russian academic and official documentation.

GOST R 7.0.97–2025

A template based on GOST R 7.0.97–2025, commonly used for:

• official documents
• reports
• formal academic texts

This preset reflects:

• page margins
• paragraph indents
• heading formatting
• spacing rules

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🎓 MIREA GOST (Why “MIREA”?)

One of the built-in presets is named MIREA, and this is intentional.

This template is based on GOST R 7.0.91–2021, which is commonly required for theses and graduation papers at MIREA (and many other Russian universities with similar internal guidelines).

Why this preset exists:

• the author of the plugin is a MIREA student
• this standard is actively used in real academic work
• university requirements often extend or slightly modify GOST, and this preset reflects those practical constraints

What this means for users:

• you get a battle-tested academic template

• even if you are not a MIREA student, the preset can be:

  • used as-is
  • adapted for another university
  • copied as a base for your own standard

The name “MIREA” does not lock the template to a single university — it simply reflects its origin and real-world usage.

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🎨 Visual Template Editor

The visual editor allows you to:

• add blocks in any order
• choose a block type from a dropdown
• automatically reorder blocks logically
• edit formatting without touching JSON

Every visual change:

• instantly updates the JSON
• stays in sync when switching tabs

This makes template creation:

• intuitive for non-programmers
• powerful for advanced users

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🌍 Localization

• UI language is automatically detected from Obsidian

• Supported:

  • English (en)
  • Russian (ru)

• Fallback order:

  • Obsidian language
  • system language
  • English

Document language is controlled by the template, not the UI.

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🛠 Technical Notes

• Written in JavaScript (no TypeScript)
• Uses docx for Word generation
• Internal structured document model
• No external services — fully local

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🗺 Roadmap

• More built-in academic templates
• Template sharing
• Improved image handling
• Section-based templates
• Metadata-driven exports

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🤝 Contributing

Issues, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome.

If you:

• write academic papers
• work with strict formatting standards
• export documents to Word regularly

— your feedback is especially valuable.

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📄 License

MIT