The latest articles on DEV Community by Clifton Molina (@clifmo). https://dev.to/clifmo https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F408397%2F2042e982-ad61-4962-b196-0db186c5b5f1.jpeg https://dev.to/clifmo en Clifton Molina Wed, 10 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://dev.to/clifmo/word-to-markdown-2go8 https://dev.to/clifmo/word-to-markdown-2go8 <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--uenoD-W7--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/x6usjzcajkbdcu4wa5pu.jpg" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--uenoD-W7--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/x6usjzcajkbdcu4wa5pu.jpg" alt="Alt Text"></a></p> <h2> How to Convert OneNote to Markdown </h2> <p>My current role at work involves writing lots and lots of documentation which I prefer to draft, for organization reasons, <a href="https://onenote.com/">OneNote</a>. The notebooks, tabs and cloud syncing features fit the bill for me and the Android app isn't half bad. The biggest gripe I have with OneNote, really the entire Microsoft Office suite in general, is lack of rich extensibility. I haven't looked into writing extensions myself, but the complete dearth of options that come up via a Google search suggests either, I'm the only person using OneNote or writing extensions is a chore not worth the effort.</p> <p>This really became a problem for me today when I needed to move my draft documents to the company Azure DevOps Server team wiki which uses <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a>. Before giving up entirely and formatting Markdown by hand, I made one final attempt at my Google-Fu and settled for what I thought was an <a href="https://word2md.com/">online-only option</a>. This is less than ideal since I would need to pass proprietary company information through it, but proved worth the click as it contained a <a href="https://github.com/benbalter/word-to-markdown">GitHub</a> link at the bottom. What follows from here is a quick and dirty guide to setting up Word-To-Markdown on Windows… Big shout-out to <a href="https://ben.balter.com/">Ben Balter</a> for making this utility available!</p> <h3> Word2Markdown </h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/benbalter/word-to-markdown">GitHub</a> - <a href="https://word2md.com/">Online</a></p> <p><strong>Author</strong> : Ben Balter, Senior Product Manager, GitHub</p> <p><strong>Blog Post</strong> : <a href="https://ben.balter.com/2012/10/19/we-ve-been-trained-to-make-paper/">We've Been Trained To Make Paper</a></p> <h4> Dependencies </h4> <ul> <li>Install <a href="https://rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a> </li> <li>Install <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/">Libre Office</a> </li> <li>Add soffice.exe to %PATH%</li> </ul> <h4> Installation </h4> <p>gem install word-to-markdown</p> <h4> Usage </h4> <ol> <li>Generate documentation in OneNote</li> <li>Windows 10 users must open OneNote 2016, not the OneNote App</li> <li>File &gt; Export to Word</li> <li>Open command prompt</li> <li>Type: w2m WordDoc.docx &gt; Markdown.md</li> </ol>