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pandoc: Convert DOCX to Markdown That Displays Properly in VS Code Preview
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Pandoc: Convert DOCX to Markdown That Displays Properly in VS Code Preview

Normally, you get something like this if you don't specify anything beyond "markdown":

Command: pandoc -t markdown .\test-pandoc.docx -o test-pandoc.md

Result:

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  **Table heading 1**     **Table heading 2**     **Table heading 3**
  ----------------------- ----------------------- -----------------------
  Content                 Content content         Content                                         
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Which shows up weird in VS Code preview.

VS Code preview likes pipe tables, so we gotta disable a couple of pandoc plugins.

Command: pandoc -f docx -t markdown-simple_tables-multiline_tables-grid_tables .\test-pandoc.docx -o test-pandoc.md

Result:

| **Table heading 1** | **Table heading 2** | **Table heading 3** |
|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
| Content             | Content content     | Content             |

This should now show up nice and proper in VS Code preview panel.

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