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PasteMD

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Pastes AI chat answers into Word, WPS or Excel with formulas and tables intact

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The problem it solves

You copy a formula from ChatGPT into your report and Word shows a row of dollar signs and backslashes instead.

For Students writing papersOffice workers writing reportsWPS and Word users

Before
You paste an AI answer, then fix every heading, rebuild each table and retype formulas in the equation editor.
After
You press one hotkey and the answer lands at your cursor with headings, formulas and tables in place, or as cells in Excel.
Stars
★ 5.4k
License
AGPL-3.0
Cost
Free
Platforms
Win · Mac
Runs
Local

Overview

PasteMD is a small tray app for Windows and macOS that fixes what happens when you copy an AI answer into an office document. Copy a reply from ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude or another chat site, press one hotkey, and it converts the text and inserts it at your cursor in Word or WPS, with headings, lists and math formulas kept. Markdown tables go straight into Excel as real cells. It suits students and office workers who move AI answers into reports, papers and spreadsheets.

It turns the formulas and tables that usually arrive as broken symbols into real Word equations and Excel cells with one key press.

Try these first

Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.

  1. Copy a short AI answer with one formula and a small table, then press the hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+B by default) in an empty Word document.First try · inserts into Word

  2. Copy a Markdown table from an AI reply, open Excel and press the hotkey to paste it as cells.

  3. Select an AI reply on a chat web page, copy it and paste it into WPS with the hotkey.

  4. Open the tray menu and set a different hotkey or turn on keeping the converted files.changes settings

Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.

Features

From the creator's documentation.

FeatureWhat it doesRuns
Word and WPS pasteConverts copied Markdown or web text and inserts it at the cursorYour computer
Excel tablesDetects Markdown tables and pastes them into Excel as cellsYour computer
FormulasTurns LaTeX math into Word equations and fixes some common formula syntaxYour computer
Per-app modesChoose HTML, Markdown, LaTeX or file paste for other apps by window titleYour computer
macOS permissionsNeeds Accessibility, Screen Recording, Input Monitoring and Automation access on a MacSystem settings

Good to know

Copy an AI answer that contains headings, a table or math, then press the hotkey in Word, WPS or Excel. PasteMD converts the copied Markdown or web text and inserts it at the cursor, so you do not have to rebuild the formatting by hand.

Limits

  • On macOS the app needs several system permissions, and WPS on macOS shows formulas as LaTeX code rather than equations. Microsoft Word on macOS supports formulas.
  • Results depend on what the chat site puts on the clipboard; the project's own table lists sites where formulas copied as page content are lost.

Notes by (original project name: PasteMD), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. PasteMD: Getting Started · PasteMD: macOS Guide

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