11  Word Documents

There are times when we want to convert a Word document to markdown. Melissa Van Bussel has a video from Posit::conf(2023) with some tips for doing this, including using rmarkdown::pandoc_convert(). Here is an example:

rmarkdown::pandoc_convert(
  '/Users/bradcannell/Desktop/My Personal SOP.docx', 
  to = 'markdown',
  output = here::here("sops", "my_personal_sop.qmd")
)

We still need to do a little bit of manual cleaning afterward, but it’s a pretty good start.