Markdown to Excel

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Excel to MarkdownConverter

Drop in a spreadsheet, get a Markdown table. No uploads, no servers — your file stays on your machine.

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Excel File

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Supports .xlsx and .xls files

Markdown Output

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From Spreadsheet to Plain Text in Seconds

The Problem This Solves

You've got data in Excel. You need it in a GitHub README, a Confluence page, or a Notion doc. Manually retyping rows with pipe characters takes forever and you'll definitely miss a cell or two. This tool reads your .xlsx or .xls file and gives you properly formatted Markdown tables — headers, separators, aligned columns, the works. Learn more about all our tools on the About Us page.

Built for Docs-as-Code Workflows

If your team writes documentation in Git, spreadsheet screenshots don't cut it. They can't be diffed, they don't render on GitHub, and they break search. Markdown tables solve all of that. Convert your Excel data once, commit the Markdown, and it stays in version control just like your code. Going the other way? The Markdown to Excel converter does exactly that.

When Markdown Tables Beat Embedded Spreadsheets

Markdown tables are lightweight (a few KB vs. a 2MB .xlsx), they render natively on GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, and anyone can read them without Excel installed. For data that lives in documentation — config references, feature matrices, comparison charts — Markdown is the better format. If your source data is in CSV instead of Excel, try the CSV to Markdown converter.

How People Actually Use This

README Tables on GitHub

Your PM sends you a spreadsheet with a feature comparison. Instead of screenshotting it and embedding an image that nobody can search or copy from, convert it to Markdown. It renders natively in the README and anyone can update it in a pull request.

Technical Writing and Docs Sites

If you're writing docs in MkDocs, Docusaurus, or Jekyll, your content format is Markdown. When someone hands you data in a spreadsheet, this converter gets it into the right format without you having to type out every pipe and dash by hand.

Sprint Reports and Status Updates

Got a status tracker in Excel that needs to go into a Slack post or a Notion page? Convert the relevant rows to Markdown and paste it in. Takes about 5 seconds versus rebuilding the table manually.

API and Config Reference Docs

API endpoint tables, environment variable lists, permission matrices — these often start life in a spreadsheet during planning. Convert them to Markdown for your API docs, and they're easy to keep in sync with your codebase.

What You Get

Works with both .xlsx and .xls files
Handles multi-sheet workbooks automatically
Keeps your table structure and data intact
Drag-and-drop file upload
Converts in under a second for typical files
Runs 100% in your browser — no server involved
No file size cap (browser memory is the limit)
Clean Markdown output with proper alignment
Auto-detects the header row
One-click copy to clipboard
GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) compatible
Works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge

How It Works (4 Steps)

The whole process takes about 10 seconds:

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Pick Your File

Click Upload or drag your .xlsx/.xls file into the box. Both the modern XML format and the older binary format work fine.

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Watch It Convert

The tool reads every sheet in your workbook and turns each one into a Markdown table. Multi-sheet files get a heading for each sheet.

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Check the Output

Scan the Markdown preview to make sure everything looks right. Headers, data, column count — it should all match your spreadsheet.

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Copy and Paste

Hit the Copy button and paste the Markdown into your README, wiki, or doc. Done.

Related Tools

Markdown to Excel

Go the other way — turn Markdown tables into .xlsx spreadsheets.

Markdown to CSV

Export Markdown table data as comma-separated values.

CSV to Markdown

Got a CSV? Turn it into a Markdown table.

HTML to Markdown

Strip HTML tags and get clean Markdown.

Markdown to HTML

Render your Markdown as HTML for web pages.

Word to Markdown

Pull content out of .docx files as Markdown.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drag your .xlsx or .xls file into the upload area (or click the Upload button and pick it). The tool reads every sheet in the file and turns each one into a Markdown table. Hit Copy to grab the output, then paste it wherever you need it — a README, a wiki page, a Notion doc, anything.
Both .xlsx (the format Excel has used since 2007) and the older .xls binary format. The tool handles either one. If your file came from Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc, just export it as .xlsx first and you're good.
Each sheet gets its own section in the output. The converter adds a heading with the sheet name (like ## Sheet1) followed by the table data in Markdown. So a workbook with 4 sheets gives you 4 separate Markdown tables, all in one output.
Markdown tables are plain text, so visual styling like cell colors, fonts, and conditional formatting don't carry over. Merged cells get flattened to their display values. What you do keep is the actual data and the table structure — headers, rows, and columns all come through intact.
No. The file never leaves your computer. Everything runs client-side in the browser using JavaScript. I set it up that way because people often have sensitive data in spreadsheets — payroll, customer lists, internal reports — and I didn't want any of that hitting a server.
There's no hard limit built into the tool, but since processing happens in your browser, really large files (50MB+) might be slow depending on your device. For everyday spreadsheets — a few hundred rows, a handful of sheets — it's near instant.
It uses pipe characters (|) to separate columns and a row of dashes (---) under the header. Like this: | Name | Age | then |---|---| then | Alice | 30 |. GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Obsidian, and most Markdown renderers display this as a formatted table.
Yep. Use the Markdown to Excel converter on the homepage. Or if you need a lighter format, there's a Markdown to CSV converter too.
It's free — no sign-up, no payment, no limits on how many files you convert. We also have converters for HTML to Markdown, CSV to Markdown, and Markdown to CSV.