MarkOut

Install keyboard shortcut

Convert clipboard Markdown to rich text without opening your browser.

ⓘ Windows only — requires PowerShell 7+ (included in Windows 11; install for Windows 10)

How it works

  1. Copy Markdown text to your clipboard (from anywhere — an editor, a chat, a doc).
  2. Press Ctrl + Shift + M to convert it.
  3. Paste into Outlook, Teams, or any rich-text app. Your formatting is intact.

Option 1: Download the script

Download a small PowerShell script, save it anywhere, and create a keyboard shortcut that points to it. No admin rights needed.

Download markout.ps1

Setup (one time, ~2 minutes)

  1. Save markout.ps1 somewhere permanent (e.g. C:\Scripts\markout.ps1).
  2. Right-click the file → Create shortcut.
  3. Right-click the new shortcut → Properties.
  4. In Target, change it to:
    pwsh -WindowStyle Hidden -File "C:\Scripts\markout.ps1"
  5. In the Shortcut key field, press Ctrl + Shift + M.
  6. Move the shortcut to your Desktop or Start Menu folder (shortcut keys only work from these locations).
  7. Click OK. Done. The shortcut is now active system-wide.

Option 2: One-liner install

Paste this into PowerShell. It downloads the script, creates a shortcut on your Desktop with Ctrl + Shift + M bound, and you are done.

irm https://markout.cloud/install.ps1 | iex

What this does

  1. Downloads markout.ps1 to ~\Documents\MarkOut\markout.ps1
  2. Creates a Desktop shortcut with Ctrl + Shift + M
  3. That is it — no PATH changes, no registry edits, no services

The script is open source — view the source on GitHub before you run it.