Tables & spreadsheets

Tables move cleanly between Markzen and any spreadsheet. Paste tab-separated text — copied from Excel, Google Sheets, Word, or a web table — into the editor and Markzen turns it into a proper table written in the document's own markup, instead of dropping in a wall of tab characters. The paste reader is quote-aware (it correctly handles cells that themselves contain tabs, line breaks, or quotation marks) and only triggers when the clipboard holds a clean rectangular grid of at least two columns; anything else pastes as ordinary text.

The reverse works too. Hover over any rendered table in the preview and a copy button appears in its corner: it copies the table back out as tab-separated text that drops straight into a spreadsheet cell or a Word document. These copy buttons are a preview convenience only — they're stripped from every export and conversion, so a shared file contains just the clean table.