Document Upload

The first step of Generate with AI is giving it your content: upload a Word or Markdown file, or paste text. This page covers what it accepts and how to prepare content so it becomes the sections you expect. You need an OpenAI key and the Developer access level; see AI Features Overview.

What it accepts

Input	Accepted	Notes
Word document	.docx	Up to 5MB. Only the text is read, in document order; each table row becomes one line with its cells separated by ” | ”.
Older Word document	.doc	Not accepted — the older binary format cannot be read. Open it in Word and save it as .docx.
Markdown file	.md	Up to 5MB. Headings, lists and bold are kept.
Pasted text	Markdown or plain text	Paste into the Paste Markdown tab.

PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Docs and other formats are not uploaded directly. Copy the text and paste it instead.

How to add your content

1. Open the page in the Promptless WP editor and select Generate with AI in the toolbar.
2. In Upload Your Document, choose a tab:
   • Upload Document: drop a file on the box, or select it to browse.
   • Paste Markdown: paste your text into the box.
3. The panel shows Document Content Extracted with the start of the text and its word and character counts. Check that the text is what you expected.
4. To start again, select Remove file (after an upload) or Clear (after pasting).

Then continue with How AI Generation Works.

How to structure content

The generator relies on headings to decide where sections start. It follows these rules:

• A level-1 heading becomes the heading of the first section. If a level-2 heading follows it directly, both go into that first section.
• Each level-2 heading starts a new section.
• Level-3 headings under a level-2 heading become cards or items in that section.
• Bullet lists stay as text in the section unless they are headed items.

A Markdown example that should produce a hero section followed by a features section with three cards:

# Main Page Title
## A one-line tagline

A short welcome paragraph.

## Our Services

### Planning
What planning includes.

### Design
What design includes.

### Support
What support includes.

The kind of section is chosen from the content under each heading:

Content under the heading	Section it usually becomes
People with a name, role and bio	Team
Items or plans with prices	Pricing
Lines starting with a checkmark (✓)	Checklist
Several dated events	Features, in events layout
Questions ending in ”?” followed by answers	FAQ
Quotes with a name after them	Testimonials
Short numeric results such as “500+ Clients”	Stats
A numbered process of three or more steps	Steps
A welcome message or call to action	Hero
Anything else	Features

Limits and common problems

• Word documents lose their heading levels. Only the text of a .docx is read, one paragraph after another; heading styles, bold and bullet formatting are not passed on. The AI then has to guess the structure. For the most predictable result, use a Markdown file or paste Markdown with #, ## and ### headings.
• Links are removed. Markdown links keep their text but lose the address, and images are reduced to their alt text. Add links and images in the editor after import.
• Code blocks and front matter are removed from Markdown before the AI sees it.
• Text in headers, footers and images is not read from Word documents. Move it into the body.
• Only about the first 10,000 characters are used. Split long documents and generate each part.
• The file is refused. It is over 5MB, or not a .docx or .md file (an older .doc must be saved as .docx first). See AI Troubleshooting.

Related pages

• AI Features Overview — What the built-in AI features do, the API keys they need, who can use them, and how they differ from the connector.
• How AI Generation Works — Turn uploaded or pasted content into sections, choose which to import and how they are styled, and check the result.
• AI Troubleshooting — Fixes for a missing AI button, API key errors, uploads that fail, missing or misplaced content, timeouts, and image generation errors.