Excel to Markdown converter
Convert Excel to Markdown as you type. Nothing is uploaded, and the result can be previewed as a table, copied or downloaded.
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How to convert Excel to Markdown
- Open an .xlsx, .xls or .ods file, or copy cells in Excel or Google Sheets and paste them into the input panel.
- Adjust the options above the panels (delimiter, header row, alignment and so on).
- Check the result: switch the output to “Table” view to see it as a grid.
- Press “Copy” or “Download .md”. The conversion runs on your device, so large files never leave it.
Copy cells in Excel or Google Sheets, paste them here and get an aligned GitHub-flavored Markdown table for a README, issue or wiki page.
About Excel
Microsoft Excel workbooks (.xlsx, and legacy .xls). TableForge also reads OpenDocument .ods and data copied straight out of a spreadsheet.
About Markdown
GitHub Flavored Markdown tables: pipes between cells and a dashed separator row, with colons that set column alignment.
Questions people ask
Is my Excel data uploaded anywhere?
No. The Excel to Markdown conversion runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. The page works offline once it has loaded, and TableForge never receives your data.
How large a file can I convert?
The limit is your device's memory. Files of tens of megabytes (hundreds of thousands of rows) convert fine on a typical laptop. The preview shows the first 200 rows, but the download always contains every row.
Does the converter keep special characters and commas?
Yes. Fields containing commas, quotes or line breaks are quoted and escaped according to each format's rules, and text is read and written as UTF-8, so accents, CJK characters and emoji survive.
Can I convert Markdown back to Excel?
Yes, if Markdown is a readable format: the universal converter on the TableForge home page takes CSV, TSV, JSON, XML, YAML, Excel, Markdown, HTML tables and SQL inserts as input.
Are formulas exported?
Each cell is exported as the value Excel last calculated and saved, with its display formatting (dates, currency). The formulas themselves are not exported, because CSV, JSON and similar formats have no concept of them.