I cannot import my word docs into SWAY? Can you help me?

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I cannot import my word docs into SWAY? Can you help me?

otis miller 5

I cannot import or transform my WORD documents into SWAY

otis miller 5 Reputation points

2025-12-20T20:10:11.3233333+00:00

I have a Microsoft 365 Office subscription. And have been importing word documents into Sway for over a year. it just stopped lthis week.
Brian Blomquist 0 Reputation points

2026-01-07T15:30:41.2333333+00:00

I have had the same problem - unable to import a Word document into Sway - for the past few weeks. The "workaround" solution of using the tranform feature in Word has not worked either. An error says Sway cannot be connected due to an internet issue or a problem on Microsoft's end. Thank you for the workaround suggestion that we copy and paste into Sway. I was previously aware that I could manually create my own presentation.

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otis miller 5 Reputation points

2025-12-20T20:10:11.3233333+00:00

I have a Microsoft 365 Office subscription. And have been importing word documents into Sway for over a year. it just stopped lthis week.
Brian Blomquist 0 Reputation points

2026-01-07T15:30:41.2333333+00:00

I have had the same problem - unable to import a Word document into Sway - for the past few weeks. The "workaround" solution of using the tranform feature in Word has not worked either. An error says Sway cannot be connected due to an internet issue or a problem on Microsoft's end. Thank you for the workaround suggestion that we copy and paste into Sway. I was previously aware that I could manually create my own presentation.

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otis miller 5

I have a Microsoft 365 Office subscription. And have been importing word documents into Sway for over a year. it just stopped lthis week.

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Answer 2

Xavier-D 12,855 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Hello otis miller,

Thank you for posting your question on Microsoft Q&A forum

I understand you are having trouble importing Word docs into Sway.

There have been reports from other users that they also having issue with importing Word doc to Sway such as the user from this thread:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5669621/uploading-word-doc-to-sway-isnt-working

Here are some workarounds you can try to see if it can import to Sway:

Use Copy & Paste instead of direct import

Direct import is not always supported, and the stable fallback is to simply copy and paste your Word content into Sway.
This works for text, images, and most formatting.

Try creating a Sway using “Transform” from inside Word:

Open your Word document
Go to File > Transform > Transform to Webpage (Sway)
Choose a template and let Word generate the Sway version

This will bypass the upload step to Sway

Feel free reply back to this post and update me on the situation to see if the workarounds are effective, I'll be happy to help.

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Xavier-D 12,855 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-12-23T13:22:20.8266667+00:00

Hi,

Just checking in to see if the above information was helpful.

If you have any further updates on this issue, please feel free to post back.

If you think my reply is helpful to you, please remember to mark it as an answer. Warm thanks.
Claire 5 Reputation points

2026-01-09T09:59:44.0366667+00:00

Hi

This is still an issue I tried to convert the Word document to a webpage. This didn't work. Is this going to be investigated further?

Thanks