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title: "Convert Google Docs content to Markdown or HTML using the gd2md-html add-on"
date: 2017-09-22
description: "Check out gd2md-html here. Here’s the description:  gd2md-html is a free Google Docs add-on that converts a Google Doc to a simple, readable Markdown or HTML text file...."
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# Convert Google Docs content to Markdown or HTML using the gd2md-html add-on
> gd2md-html is a free Google Docs add-on that converts a Google Doc to a simple, readable Markdown or HTML text file. gd2md-html requires minimal permissions: it will ask for permission to access the current Doc (to convert it). It requires no other permissions.
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> Install gd2md-html.
> Note: Not all Markdown renderers support all Markdown features. For example github Markdown does not support a table of contents ([TOC]), footnotes, or definition lists. Also, some Markdown environments strip heading IDs and replace them with their own generated IDs. You’ll have to do some manual adjustments, depending on your target environment.

A few years ago, I wrote a post called [A simple way to write, edit, and publish documentation online using Google Docs and Markdown](/2014/02/25/a-simple-way-to-write-edit-and-publish-documentation-online-using-google-docs-and-markdown/). In it, I described how I would use Markdown syntax in Google Docs as a way to reduce the amount of reformatting I’d need to do when ready to publish the content to my CMS (at the time, Drupal). (The Markdown syntax I was using wasn’t rendered in Google Docs — it was the equivalent of using Markdown syntax in Notepad or another plain text editor.)