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alxnbl / onenote-md-exporter

ConsoleApp to export OneNote notebooks to Markdown formats
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Why is Word needed? #50

Closed sbn-purchark closed 2 years ago

sbn-purchark commented 2 years ago

I guess this won't work with just the standalone MS365 Desktop Onenote installation? When you say free application I thought you just meant the "OneNote for Windows 10" UWP app.

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alxnbl commented 2 years ago

That's true, the export process is converting notes into an intermediate docx file that requires both OneNote and Word to be installed. I never tried it but you can install evaluation version of Word if your licence do not includes it.

alxnbl commented 2 years ago

An alternative would be to export in an intermediate format other than docx, like html, but the tool dot not support it yet.

sbn-purchark commented 2 years ago

I tried a tool in the past that went MS cloud API --> html --> pandoc MD. Result was terrible. I'll look for a copy of Word. Thanks!

alxnbl commented 2 years ago

You're welcome, hope you will be satisfied with the result!