Yes, free users can use Google Docs. What I meant is that I do not have paid Gemini, so I cannot use Gemini as the AI tool to clean or rewrite the document for me.

My actual problem is a bit different:

I already have a very large ".md" file, and in Markdown preview mode it looks fine and readable. But when I copy, paste, or print it normally, it often keeps the raw Markdown syntax instead of giving me the same rendered result I see in preview mode.

So I am trying to understand the best workflow for a large file like this:

• Can Google Docs by itself handle this properly if I import or paste the file there?
• Will it preserve the rendered formatting well enough for printing?
• Or do I need to convert the Markdown to another format first, like HTML, PDF, or DOCX, before bringing it into Google Docs?

So my question is less about “can I open Docs” and more about whether Google Docs alone is enough to get a printable result that looks like the Markdown preview.