Excel to Markdown
A sheet as a table, not as a paragraph
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Drop the sheet in
An .xls, .xlsx, .ods or .csv, read from disk and sent nowhere. Spreadsheets are where the salaries and the customer lists live, so this one is worth not uploading.
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The rows stay rows
The cells come out as a Markdown table, so a number is still in the row and column it belonged to. Flattening a sheet into a paragraph loses exactly that, and it is what makes a pasted table useless.
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Copy or download
As a .md file, or straight to the clipboard.
FAQ
- Is my spreadsheet uploaded?
- No. It is read on this page, on your own machine, and no request carries it anywhere.
- What happens to formulas?
- You get what the sheet shows, not how it got there. A cell that computes a total arrives as the total. That is usually what somebody pasting a table into a document wants, and it is worth knowing before you rely on it.
- What about several sheets in one file?
- They come out one after another, in the order the workbook holds them, rather than only the first. Everything in the file is in the output.
- Will a huge sheet work?
- It is your own machine doing it, and a Markdown table of ten thousand rows is a wall of text rather than a failure. The limit is what your browser will hold and what you can actually use.