Paste Excel with formatting

[henrik-forsell]

At times I want to paste a table from Excel into markdown using this extention and Ctrl+Alt+C. The problem is that it creates a picture instead of a table. I can copy from Excel and into Word. Then copy the word table into markdown and it becomes a markdown table.

Is there a setting that I am missing? Or could it be a fix/option to paste as table from Excel?

[telesoho]

@henrik-forsell

Excel can only be used on Windows, and I don't have Excel, so I'm not sure what the content of the clipboard looks like after copying in Excel. Implementing this feature would be very difficult.

[henrik-forsell]

That could of course be problematic! :)

There is another extension that does only one thing called "Excel to Markdown table". The development seem to have halted. That code could be used to understand what is sent to the clip board. Or maybe see if it is possible to merge that code into Markdown Paste. (With the other persons approval, of course!)

[telesoho]

@henrik-forsell
Thank you for providing the information. I will study their code and see if it can be integrated into this extension.

[telesoho]

@henrik-forsell

I has release a new version v1.1.0 to support pasting spreadsheet content. I tested the content from WPS spreadsheets, and it works fine, but I haven't tested it with Microsoft's Excel.
Additionally, I added a feature to parse clipboard content and convert it to Markdown format using a large language model(base on Groq). If you're interested, you can give it a try.

[henrik-forsell]

I have tested it with MS Excel data and it works perfectly! Thanks a lot!

When it comes to the Groq integration, I have not really understood what it does compared to the non AI version. But, I did see two details:

• In the decription under Features you write "Enable this feature by Set MarkdownPaste.enableAI to ture." Should be "true".
• In the settings for API key it says "Markdown Paste: Ai Key". Shouldn't this be "API key".

[telesoho]

@henrik-forsell

I have tested it with MS Excel data and it works perfectly! Thanks a lot!

When it comes to the Groq integration, I have not really understood what it does compared to the non AI version. But, I did see two details:

• In the decription under Features you write "Enable this feature by Set MarkdownPaste.enableAI to ture." Should be "true".
• In the settings for API key it says "Markdown Paste: Ai Key". Shouldn't this be "API key".

Thank you for pointing out the errors.

The AI mode is currently just an experiment, mainly aimed at leveraging large language models to extend the capabilities of this extension. For example, by setting appropriate prompts in aiSysMessage, the AI can automatically translate clipboard content and convert it into Markdown format.

[libukai]

Hope to support the OpenAI-compatible interface, customize the baseurl

[telesoho]

@libukai

Hope to support the OpenAI-compatible interface, customize the baseurl

I have pre-released a new version, pre1.3.0, to support the OpenAI-compatible interface. Welcome to use it and provide any feedback.