The Scenario
You are a knowledge manager. Your company ran on Coda for three years. Now the team is migrating to a new wiki platform, and before the cutover, someone has to get the content out.
You have 30 Coda specification pages that need to move. The migration tool accepts Markdown. Each page's Markdown content needs to land in an Excel workbook, one row per page, so the migration team can review and edit before import.
The bad version:
- You open the first Coda page, export as Markdown, open the file, copy the content, paste into column B of the workbook
- You go back to Coda, open the next page, repeat
- By page eleven the formatting is inconsistent because you are copy-pasting from different export paths
- By page twenty you paste the wrong content into the wrong row
- The migration team finds four mismatches on the first day and you spend an afternoon retracing your steps.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that exports Coda page content as Markdown and writes it into the workbook without you opening a single page in the Coda UI.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For each Coda page ID in column A of this workbook, export the page content as Markdown and write it into column B. Write the page title into column C.
SheetXAI iterates through column A, calls the Coda API for each page ID, exports the content as Markdown, and writes it into columns B and C. Thirty rows, thirty exports, zero manual steps.
What You Get
A migration-ready workbook with one row per Coda page:
- Column A — Coda page ID (what you already had)
- Column B — full page content as Markdown
- Column C — page title pulled from Coda
Content is exported from live Coda pages at prompt time. If a page was edited this morning, you get today's version.
The migration team opens the workbook, reads column B, and passes it to their import script. Or they review manually and paste into the new wiki page by page.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Markdown exports are rarely migration-ready without cleanup. SheetXAI handles it in the same prompt.
When some page IDs are flagged as not ready to migrate
The workbook has a "Hold" flag in column C for pages still being edited.
For each row in this workbook where column C is NOT 'Hold', export the Coda page content for the ID in column A as Markdown and write it into column B. Skip rows where column C says 'Hold'. Write 'SKIPPED' into column B for those rows.
When Markdown heading levels need to shift down for the new wiki
Your new wiki renders H1 as a page title, so exported Markdown should start at H2.
For each page ID in column A, export the content as Markdown. Shift all heading levels down by one — replace lines starting with '# ' with '## ', '## ' with '### ', and so on. Write the adjusted Markdown into column B and the page title into column C.
When you need a word count for prioritizing review effort
The migration team wants to know which pages are long enough to warrant detailed review.
For each page ID in column A, export the content as Markdown and write it into column B. Count the words in the exported content and write that count into column D. Sort all rows by word count descending after writing.
When you need the full export plus a list of broken internal links
Coda internal links break after migration. Flag them before the cutover.
For each page ID in column A, export the content as Markdown and write it into column B. Scan the Markdown in column B for any links that start with 'https://coda.io'. Write a list of those links into column E for each row. If there are no internal links, write 'None' in column E.
The pattern: export, clean, annotate — all in one prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any workbook with Coda page IDs in column A, then ask it to export the content as Markdown. The Coda integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to generate a Coda doc inventory report in Excel or the Coda in Excel overview.