Spreadsheet to Table as an alternative to Excel to Markdown Table
Looking for an alternative to Excel to Markdown Table? Here are the public facts for both plugins and the steps to switch without losing your work.
At a glance
| Detail | Excel to Markdown Table | Spreadsheet to Table |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Paste data from Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers and LibreOffice Calc as Markdown tables. | Paste cells from Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers or LibreOffice Calc as a Markdown table with a real header row. Also converts CSV or tab-separated text, and copies a table back out for a spreadsheet. |
| Author | Ganessh Kumar R P | siulved54 |
| Latest version in the directory | 0.4.0 | 0.5.3 |
| Last update recorded | 17 June 2022 | 2 November 2026 |
| Total downloads | 210,937 | 2,412 |
| Price | Free and open source |
What Spreadsheet to Table does
Table tools for Markdown notes: paste spreadsheet cells as a table, edit rows and columns from commands (so it works in source mode and on a phone), sort, align, and copy a table out as rich text, CSV or spreadsheet cells.
How to switch from Excel to Markdown Table to Spreadsheet to Table
- Install Spreadsheet to Table from Install from the Obsidian directory.
- In Settings, Community plugins, turn Excel to Markdown Table off without deleting it, so the two do not act on the same action at once.
- Open the Spreadsheet to Table settings and review them once: settings from Excel to Markdown Table are not copied over.
- When everything works the way you expect, uninstall Excel to Markdown Table.
More about
Where these facts come from
Name, author, description, version, last-update date and downloads come from the public Obsidian directory files (community-plugins.json and community-plugin-stats.json), read on 12 November 2026. Download counts are the ones Obsidian publishes.
This page is written by the person who makes Spreadsheet to Table. If you maintain Excel to Markdown Table and want something corrected or removed, open an issue in the repository and it will be handled.