Excel to Markdown

Turn an Excel spreadsheet into a Markdown table online

You have a spreadsheet or a CSV export, and what you need is a clean Markdown table to paste into a README or a wiki page. Retyping columns by hand is slow once a sheet has more than a few rows.

Upload a .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, or .tsv file and the tool reads every sheet in a workbook, turning each one into its own table under a heading matching the sheet name. A plain CSV or TSV file becomes a single table, since there is only one set of rows to work with. Cell text that would otherwise break a table, such as a pipe character or a stray asterisk, gets escaped so the result renders correctly wherever you paste it.

There is nothing to configure here; you upload the file and download the Markdown. Very large sheets are trimmed to a sensible number of rows, with a note if anything was left out, so you are not left guessing whether the output is complete. If you are working from an older .xls file, save it as .xlsx first, since that format is not read directly.

Your file is handled on the site's servers over an encrypted connection and removed within 60 minutes, so nothing lingers once you have your download.

If you need the opposite direction, turning a table back into a spreadsheet, use Markdown to Excel instead.