Hello fellow Jira users and admins! We are attempting something very basic: extract data from Jira and populate it into a merge file, in Microsoft Word, to create a PDF "book" for executive review. Not hard, very straightforward it seems... export filter to Excel; map Excel field names to Word merge file; hit merge; save as PDF
The problem is that the "Description" field in our instance is a field that allows text formatting... bold, italics, indents, underlines, etc. When the data is exported to Excel the "formatting" marks are brought out as well. What should be a simple sub-section header reads like this: Clarity ‘How To’ Part II:
I found the below article regarding the specific functions that each markdown makes... indents, bold letters, etc. But how can I apply these markdown rules in Excel, to take what is a plain-text export and make it formatted again?
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/markdown-and-keyboard-shortcuts/
Or... is there a way to export fully formatted text from Jira, that I am missing? I know you export to Word, and that maintains formatting, but then it doesn't work for our needs since it is not in table format. :(
I'd appreciate any advice or thoughts you all might have. Thank you!
