Convert MS Office Files to HTML & markitdown

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Markitdown is a free utility provided by Microsoft. It can - among other files - convert PowerPoint (.pptx), Word (.docx) and Excel (.xlsx) files to Markdown, which Dropshare can convert to HTML. That way, MS Office files can be shared in an accessible way on the internet and can be viewed right from the browser.

To use markitdown with Dropshare, it needs to be installed on your Mac.

Install markitdown

Open Terminal.app, and use pip3 to install markitdown:

pip3 install markitdown

Or, alternatively, if you are using Homebrew, you can use pipx:

brew install pipx && pipx install markitdown

Afterwards, you can enable Convert MS Office files to HTML in the Dropshare Upload preferences.