Export an Azure DevOps Wiki to Word

When a wiki needs to become a document

Contract deliverables, audit packs, handover documents and offline review all want a single file. The wiki is a tree of many pages, and the web interface prints one page at a time, so you end up copying and pasting.

What to keep in the conversion

1. The page order from the wiki, including subpages.
2. A real table of contents field that Word can update.
3. Embedded images and attachments referenced by the pages.
4. Tables, code blocks and task lists.

Export a subtree or the whole wiki

Choose the root page of the section you need, or export everything. A subtree is the better default for a deliverable, because it leaves out draft and internal pages.

Open it in Word and update fields

The table of contents is a field. When you first open the file Word asks whether to update fields. Accept, and the contents page fills in with page numbers.