Simple HTML to Markdown/Markdown Extra Guide?

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  scotty on 29/07/2008 - 09:41

  The "table" I did there was actually a pre-formatted text (similar to [pre] in HTML — sorry all HTML will be tripped out so I am using square brackets here.)

  There should be a link at the bottom of the text editing box to the Markdown and Markdown Extra documentation. I guess I can create a separate page for the most commonly used syntax.

  Thanks for the suggestion.

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  gabbyh on 29/07/2008 - 09:51

  Something simple for the most commonly used syntax would be a great idea scotty. Would simplify things a lot and encourage non-technical users to format their posts appropriately.

  Looked at both the Markdown links and while the information certainly is comprehensive, I find it easy to get lost in technical irrelevancies while missing the simple syntax needed to make something eg. bold.

  Happy to assist in any way I can. Let me know if there is anything I can do.

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  rygle on 02/12/2022 - 20:37

  Word Macro to Convert Hyperlinks to Markdown

  Here's a Word Macro that should make it easier to convert a Word doc with hyperlinks to OzBargain Markdown with similarly embedded hyperlinks. I modified the macro from a Microsoft answers post and left the original attribution in to give credit where is due

  Sub HyperLinkConvertToOzBargainMarkdown()
      ' Charles Kenyon 2020-07-19
      ' From https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/macro…
      ' Change hyperlink to html format <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1112010">as reported in NEJM</a>
      '
      '
      ' Modified by Rygle 2022-12-02 to convert to Ozbargain Markdown format [Text Description](URL)
      '
      ' This is intended for a Word document where you have embedded hyperlinks in text
      ' and want to make it look similar in the Markdown syntax used by the https://ozbargain.com.au website
      '
      ' How to setup in Word
      ' Have your document setup with text and embedded hyperlinks
      ' Press Alt+F11 to activate the Visual Basic Editor
      ' Select Insert | Module to create a new module
      ' Copy / paste this code in its entirety (from Sub to End Sub) into the module
      ' With the insertion point anywhere in the macro (between Sub and End Sub), press F5 to run the macro
      ' If you have multiple hyperlinks per line, you may need to run this macro several times until all are coverted
      ' It only seems to convert one hyperlink per line, per run. So a line with five hyperlinks will need five runs
      ' Extra runs should not damage already converted text
      ' Finally, switch back to Word.
  
      Dim oLink As Hyperlink
      Dim strText As String
      Dim strLink As String
      For Each oLink In ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks
          Let strText = oLink.Range.Text
          Let strLink = oLink.Range.Hyperlinks(1).Address
          Let oLink.Range.Text = "[" & strText & "](" & strLink & ")"
          Next oLink
      Set oLink = Nothing
  End Sub
  

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  rygle on 02/12/2022 - 21:09

  Some great tools for bringing tables from HTML, Excel, or from Word (convert table to text/CSV with Tabs as separator, or commas but must have quotes around each entire cell)

  https://tableconvert.com/html-to-markdown

  https://tableconvert.com/excel-to-markdown

  https://tableconvert.com/csv-to-markdown