Obsidian Excel to Markdown Table

An Obsidian plugin to paste data from Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers and LibreOffice Calc as Markdown tables in Obsidian editor.

Demo

You can paste the copied data in the clipboard by one of the following methods.

#	Name	Method	Notes
1	Pasting	Ctrl/Cmd + V	will paste only table with two or more columns
2	Hotkey	Crtl/Cmd + Alt + V	will paste table with one column as well reassign the Hotkey from settings if needed
3	Command Palette	Ctrl/Cmd + P > Excel to Markdown	will paste table with one column as well

Installation

From Obsidian

1. Open Settings > Third-party plugin
2. Make sure Safe mode is off
3. Click Browse community plugins
4. Search for this plugin
5. Click Install
6. Once installed, enable this plugin and close the community plugins window and the plugin is ready to use.

From GitHub

1. Download the Latest Release from the Releases section of the GitHub Repository
2. Put files to your vault's plugins folder: <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-excel-to-markdown-table
3. Reload Obsidian
4. If prompted about Safe Mode, you can disable safe mode and enable the plugin.
   Otherwise, head to Settings, third-party plugins, make sure safe mode is off and enable the plugin from there.

Note: The .obsidian folder may be hidden. On macOS, you should be able to press Command+Shift+Dot to show the folder in Finder.

License

MIT

Acknowledgements

• vscode-excel-to-markdown-table
• copy-excel-paste-markdown

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