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WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 13
Cotton Markdown Tables is constantly improving. Here are some of the recently added features:
- Added support for
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RECENTLY ADDED
- Markdown table syntax is now more user-editable
Vertical pipes now start and end every row.
Using previous syntax:
1 | 2
:--: | :--:
3 | 4
| 1 | 2 |
|---|---|
| 3 | 4 |
Using more user-editable syntax:
| 1 | 2 |
| :--: | :--: |
| 3 | 4 |
| 1 | 2 |
|---|---|
| 3 | 4 |
RECENTLY ADDED
- Added a YouTube(TM) thumbnail generator
HOW IT WORKS
In cell A1, enter the canonical YouTube watch URL, surrounded by double brackets:
<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3jLJU7DT5E>>
Now, insert a new note to cell A1:
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This note annotates the YouTube video thumbnail.
Next, run any Cotton Markdown tables conversion. The YouTube generator syntax converts to the following Markdown syntax:
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?=w3jLJU7DT5E)
Here is what it looks like:
Video information is also added to footnotes below the Markdown table.
RECENTLY ADDED
- Added support for
=HYPERLINKformula - Added support for spreadsheet hypertext formatting
- Added support for underline font style
- Improved empty cell handling for large tables
- Added support for exporting notes as footnotes
- Improved GitHub rendering of special characters
- Added support for line breaks (multi-line text)
- Added support for converting checkboxes to text checkboxes
- Updated list of supported monospace Google fonts
- Added compatibility chart for Markdown editors.
- Released open source copy of this add-on
- Various UI improvements
ADDED IN PREVIOUS VERSIONS
- Added support for bold, italic, and strike-through font styles
- Added support for converting monospace (fixed-width) fonts to code syntax
- Added support for skipping hidden rows and columns
- Added support for multi-select ranges
- Added exporter for multiple named ranges to a single document
- Added exporter for multiple sheets to a Markdown table group file
CORE FUNCTIONALITY
- Export selected range
- Copy to clipboard
- Save Markdown document to Google Drive™
- Download Markdown document to desktop