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Add Windows context menu items
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Add Windows context menu to convert Markdown file to MS Word (docx)

Adapted from Adapted from Luke Maciak's Markdown Menus, which is described here (removed PDF option, which I never got to work anyway). Requires PanDoc. Install steps:

  1. Download markdown-to-docx-menu.reg file.
  2. Change path to pandoc.exe to your local Pandoc installation.
  3. Optionally you might want to fine-tune PanDoc's many in- and output options to you own needs as well.
  4. Save the file.
  5. In Windows explorer, right-click on reg file; select Merge and then confirm. All done!

If installation is successful, you can now convert any Markdown file to Word by right-clicking on it, and then click on mk2doc.

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jpylyzer-menu.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\jpylyzer]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\jpylyzer\command]
@="\"C:\\jpylyzer\\jpylyzer.exe\" \"%1\" > \"%1.xml\""
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markdown-to-docx-menu.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\mkd2doc]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\mkd2doc\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\redacted\\AppData\\Local\\Pandoc\\pandoc.exe\" -s -S --ascii -N --toc-depth=2 \"%1\" -o \"%1.docx\""
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This was a bit painful to do with regedit, so ended up creating reg.exe commands - This is for docx to .md or .html. Either in the global context or specific for Docx file.

Assumptions

  • Pandoc is installed via Scoop - change the path if it isnt the same as yours
  • Word icon

"Global area"
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes*\shell\

 reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\Pandoc" /ve /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "Pandoc to MD" /f
 reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\Pandoc" /v "Icon" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Root\VFS\Windows\Installer\{90160000-000F-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}\wordicon.exe" /f
 reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\Pandoc\command" /ve /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "\"%UserProfile%\scoop\shims\pandoc.exe\" \"%1\" --extract-media=. --from=docx --to=gfm -o \"%1\".md" /f

"Just show for docx files"
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations.docx

reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.docx\shell\Pandoc" /ve /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "Pandoc to MD" /f
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.docx\shell\Pandoc" /v "Icon" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Root\VFS\Windows\Installer\{90160000-000F-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}\wordicon.exe" /f
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.docx\shell\Pandoc\command" /ve /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "\"%UserProfile%\scoop\shims\pandoc.exe\" \"%1\" --extract-media=. --from=docx --to=gfm -o \"%1\".md" /f

Variant with HTML

 reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.docx\shell\Pandoc2" /ve /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "Pandoc to HTML" /f
 reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.docx\shell\Pandoc2" /v "Icon" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Root\VFS\Windows\Installer\{90160000-000F-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}\wordicon.exe" /f
 reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.docx\shell\Pandoc2\command" /ve /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "\"%UserProfile%\scoop\shims\pandoc.exe\" \"%1\" --embed-resources=true --from=docx --to=html -o \"%1\".html" /f

more info gathered here:
https://mrlixm.github.io/blog/windows-explorer-context-menu/#footnote-reference-1

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