Converting Work Item Description to Markdown While Importing from Excel

Question

We have been working on converting the Description field of work items to Markdown syntax in Azure DevOps. However, we encountered challenges while importing work items from Excel, particularly with images and tables.

When exporting work items from Azure DevOps to Excel, the Description field is provided in HTML format. While importing back, the formatting issues arise, especially with embedded images and tables, making it difficult to maintain consistency in Markdown.

Challenges Faced:

1. Images Not Displaying Properly – When importing, the image references from HTML do not translate well into Markdown.
2. Table Formatting Issues – Tables appear in raw HTML rather than being converted into proper Markdown table syntax.
3. HTML to Markdown Conversion – The description remains in HTML, requiring an additional step to manually convert it into Markdown format.