Paste a Grok answer and get it ready for wherever it is going: the markdown, source markers, emoji and hidden characters cleaned here — including for posting back to X — or the structure converted for Word and Google Docs on the pages below.
Grok writes in markdown and its copy button gives that markdown, so Word, Docs, email and social boxes show the ** and ### symbols; a searched answer also carries numbered source markers. Paste the answer above with Remove citations on — it is on by default here — to strip the markup and markers and keep bold and bullets as characters that survive anywhere, including X's composer. For Word or Google Docs, use the matching page below, which converts the structure instead.
For chat and email — Gmail, Outlook, Notion, Discord, WhatsApp, Slack — the platform formatters read Grok’s markdown the same way.
Grok is xAI's assistant and lives inside X as well as in its own app, which shapes its output in two ways. Its sources are often X posts: a searched answer carries numbered markers after the sentences it drew from them and ends with a list of the posts and pages used. And its voice is conversational by design — asides, dashes, emoji, a closing quip — which is fun in a chat and a liability in a proposal. Underneath, the markdown is standard: **bold**, ### headings, hyphen bullets, pipe tables, fenced code, LaTeX for maths. The copy button hands you all of it as text.
A lot of Grok output also goes straight back to X. That is its own formatting problem: X has no bold, counts Unicode bold and emoji as two characters each, and shows markdown literally. The editor above is built for exactly that round trip.
The editor above removes. With Remove citations on — the default on this page — the inline source markers go. The markdown goes with them: headings become plain lines, links become readable text with the address, hidden characters from quoted posts and pages are stripped, and bold and bullets can be kept as Unicode characters that plain-text boxes cannot strip. The preferences add the rest: Remove emojis, which Grok answers need more than most, the em dash replacement, and the full markdown strip. For posting to X, the X text formatter adds the counter that weighs characters the way X does.
The destination pages convert. Grok to Word and Grok to Google Docs remove the markers, keep the source list as links, and turn the markdown into real headings and lists. For Grok's tables, the ChatGPT table to Excel and Google Sheets converters read the same markdown pipes and type the numbers. For Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp, Telegram and Notion, the platform formatters linked above write each destination's native format.
Removing a marker does not remove the source, and when the source is an individual's post the document should say so. Every Grok page here keeps the source list as clickable links; turn it into footnotes in Word or Docs, a references block, or a Source column in a sheet, and delete the list once your citations are in. For a claim whose provenance matters, ask Grok to name the source in the sentence ("as @account reported on 3 March") rather than relying on a marker that will be stripped — and verify the post, because an answer built on social posts inherits their reliability.
Grok's version of the generated-text tell is tonal rather than structural: the aside in dashes, the emoji, the quip at the end, the "Let's dive in". The tools fix the punctuation and the markup in one paste — the em dash remover handles the dashes, Remove emojis the rest — and the voice you fix by cutting: the opener, the asides, the closing line. Asking Grok for a formal or concise tone at the start, and avoiding the Fun mode where offered, leaves far less to cut. Formatting makes the text look typed; editing makes it read written.
This page for plain-text destinations, including posting back to X — social posts, proposals, plain email, forms. Grok to Word or Grok to Google Docs for documents. The ChatGPT table pages for Grok's tables.
Yes, with Remove citations on, which is the default here and always on for the Grok to Word and Google Docs pages. The source list at the end is kept so you can cite the posts properly.
Yes. Copy Result here, or use the X text formatter for the X-weighted character counter — bold and emoji count double on X, and links count 23.
No. It is kept as typed; Word's equation editor renders it, Docs partly, and asking Grok for plain-text maths avoids it.
No. Everything on this page runs in your browser with client-side JavaScript. Your Grok answer is never sent to a server, stored or logged.