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Writage Markdown plugin for Microsoft Word
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Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 23, 2015 at 04:39 PM
This one is a bit unusual: it looks like it allows you to convert a .docx file into a plain text file with markdown.
I don’t fully get it, as my needs are normally to travel the opposite way, i.e. write documents in markdown (e.g. in WriteMonkey), and then convert them into Word docs. But it might be useful for some scenarios.
Posted by Gorski
Apr 23, 2015 at 05:04 PM
And they want to charge for it.
You can already do this and much more for free with Pandoc
pandoc -s example30.docx -t markdown -o example35.md
Posted by Elena
Apr 23, 2015 at 07:17 PM
Hi! Actually Writage allows you to open and edit Markdown documents in Word , so you could write documents in Markdown and save files as .md files as well.
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 23, 2015 at 08:22 PM
Elena wrote:
Hi! Actually Writage allows you to open and edit Markdown documents in
>Word , so you could write documents in Markdown and save files as .md
>files as well.
Elena, thanks for the clarification, I get it now. So the plugin turns Word into a GUI for Markdown, for people who don’t want to or don’t know how to use Markdown in plain text form, right?
I was just confused initially as the reason I use Markdown is to get away from Word :) But I can see that you are targeting a different user base.
Posted by Elena
Apr 24, 2015 at 08:22 AM
Dr Andus, you’re absolutely right! Writage turns Word into your Markdown editor.
The main target group is everyone who likes to start writing well-structured documents and prefer to use Word as a text editor or don’t have time or don’t want to become familiar with Markdown syntax.