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Could a "Paste Markdown as HTML" button be added?

I was replying to a message in Outlook. I switched to Markdown mode, pasted my content, clicked "preview" and saw that the message I was replying to and the footer (in addition to my content) was converted to Markdown.

I often copy my Markdown notes (authored with built-in line preview mode using VSCode, Markdown Monster or QOwnNotes) and paste them into Outlook. I'm looking for a quick way to make it look pretty by pasting the code without having to have it first rendered by another program.

I've done a simple test, but to find that the mail receiver only sees the raw text. I'm not sure how to enable it or this is just the setup for mail sender.
Thank you

This is more a suggestion than as issue.

I installed it, and it worked fine on the parts, I edited in the email.
However, I was replying to an email, and it messed up the formatting on the rest.
Therefore, I would suggest to add an option to write a markdown tag, for example:

<Markdown>
Something, *something* ***else***.
</Markdown>
After this no markdown formatting is applied.

When the email already has a configured signature it is overwritten as plain text. In my case I have the company logo in the signature, when the email is sent the signature is only shown as plain text because it doesn't have MarkDown format

It works well with new email, but the reply email doesn't get parsed, can you please have a look on it?

steps

• turn on MarkdownOutlook
• edit a reply email
• send

expect

the reply email should be markdown-parsed

issue

the reply email doesn't get parsed.

https://youtu.be/VTpVj981Bwk

I would like to ask, is it possible to customize how is html rendered? For example to define something like this to limit the line length and improve readability: max-width: 78ex;

p {
  max-width: 78ex;
}

or similary, is it possible to configure the font and size for the rendered html?

Maybe editing some configuration file? or not possible at all?

Thanks!

See What's new in Outlook 2013 if you're unsure what inline replies are. Thanks.

I built and installed your plugin in my copy of Outlook 2010 using VS 2012 Pro, and immediately found that simple inline formatting tags - backticks, asterisks, double-asterisks, etc are applied to my sent emails whether or not I've clicked the "enable markdown mode" button.

It would be nice if the %variable% syntax could be interpolated. If I insert an inline image like so:
![G]( c:/users/wstaples/appdata/Roaming/Microsoft/Signatures/Geiger_files/image001.png) it works but If I try:
![G]( %appdata%/Microsoft/Signatures/Geiger_files/image001.png)
It does not work.

Also what is the starting point for a relative link?

Thanks for this cool plugin.

If I try to respond to an email that was not written in Markdown, the formatting of the original that was copied into my response can become jacked up when sending. It would be nice to be able to write my reply, select it, and have a button or a key combo or something to convert it and then send it so that symbols elsewhere in the email (from text included because of reply or forward, etc) are not munged.

MarkdownSharp uses MIT, so I'd suggest that.

I don't know how to set it up with outlook.

Thanks!

Do we need to install ?

Uses Markdig for the markdown conversion
Uses VSTO to integrate with Outlook

thank you for the help

do lists work? I tried

# markdown test

## a test

*emph* **emph2** 

- list
- list

I tried the markdown for source code and table, but both of them get no rendering.

I currently have a nicely formatted signature that I use for my e-mails that gets reformatted according to Markdown syntax. Would it be possible to have that added to the final rendered e-mail instead of considering it to be part of the source text?

Does this plugin work on Mac Computers?

Great tool!

I saw that there are some PR's since you made the last release. Can you make a new release and include the installer?

Many thanks for the markdown functionality. I initially wanted to plug in formulas in my emails, so I looked for a plug in to write LaTeX code. Markdown looked good, but your plugin somehow doesn't provide Math functionality. Could you add the Math functionality with e.g. the use of $inline commands$. I would really love such a feature.

Would it be possible to port MarkdownOutlook to work with Office 365 (Outlook 2016)?

I tried to build with VS 2012 and latest version of MarkdownSharp. I added the reference, but build fails with the following error:

Error 2 'Markdown' is a 'namespace' but is used like a 'type' D:\www\MarkdownOutlook\MarkdownOutlook\ThisAddIn.cs 16 41 MarkdownOutlook

There are also other erros, and I ghink it may be due to MarkdownSharp version.

Could you specify in Readme.md the correct version of MarkdownSharp to use for?

When I type:

```java
public class Test
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        System.out.println("Hi.");
    }
}
```

I expect every line of code to be on its own line - instead, all lines get condensed onto one line:

Hey, I wondered if this can be implemented in Outlook for Mac OS Catalina on the Menu Ribbon?

Thanks,
Sam

For work I am using Outlook 2016 on Windows Server 2016 running as a virtual desktop environment in VMware Horizon.

I installed MarkdownOutlook 1.2.0 via the installer. On the COM-Add-ins settings page of outlook it tells me that the add-in could not be loaded, because there was a runtime error while loading it.

Is this a known issue, or do you maybe have an idea what might be the problem here?

Outlook 2010 on Win 7. Both the preview and the sent messagess are in horrible Times New Roman, rather than any font I might be using. Is there any way to specify the font?

Also, it only works at all if you set the message format to "Rich Text". is that as desgned?

One of the most common places I wish I had Markdown support is when sending meeting requests. It would be nice if the same functionality which exists for regular emails could be used there.

I am using Outlook 2010.

Hi all,

I have a feature suggestion please. Add a preview so that the new email will be vertically divided into 2 parts: left for markdown text and right for preview.

Thanks. Refael.

Hello, would it be possible to have it install through the Marketplace instead of the .msi installer? It'd be useful if (like me) you work in an environment where policies don't allow running an installer without admin privileges but you can install extensions from the Marketplace

Regards,
F.

Hi

Thank you for sharing this add-on .

I installed it, restarted Outlook a few times.
It works fine when I enable or re-enable the "Enable Markdown Mode" in the menu as shown below, but not when it is already enabled when I start a new message. In the latter case I have to click two times on the "Enable Markdown Mode" button (so disable/enable=re-enable).

(I use Outlook in dark mode as proposed in the 2021 version).

I cant add the picture in the mail using MarkdownOutlook in this way:

![image-xxxxx](\xxxxxx.assets\image-xxxxxxx.png)

What should i do to add the pictrues.

Hello Matthew,

I'm searching ... the exact opposite i.e. save an email as a markdown file; perhaps do you've any tips ?

I'm using a markdown based documentation software and would like to keep important mails (sent or received) into that software so I need to be able to select an email and save as a .md file.

Any tips are welcome ;-)

Thanks.

You are currently linking to Google code for MarkdownSharp. It is available right here on Github: https://github.com/StackExchange/MarkdownSharp.

However, its readme says, and rightly so, that all new projects should prefer an implementation that conforms to Commonmark, probably one that ships with some useful extensions (like tables and math or a code syntax highlighter). Markdig seems like the most sensible candidate for C#/.NET.

I don't have Visual Studio installed on my computer, but would love to use Markdown with Outlook. Do you offer, or plan to offer a build or download that I can just add in to Outlook?