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> Pure-Markdown content can be obtained by appending a '.md' suffix to the content URLs listed in the sitemap (without the trailing slash).

# Using Markdown to format your document

### What is Markdown?
Web pages and browsers, and thus also invoices and quotes formatted with CoManage, use HTML as their "language." However, since this language is not user-friendly (due to the use of foreign characters and "tags"), an easy-to-use alternative was found in Markdown.

Markdown can thus be described as an easy-to-use language for formatting text on the Web. For example, you can easily add headings, highlight text, or create bullets - all directly in your text and without too much extra handling.

### Using Markdown
* In CoManage you can use markdown for formatting such things as:
* invoice and quotation lines
* intro and additional text on your invoice or quotation
* general terms and conditions

|| Markdown can be used directly in your invoice and quotation lines. At the intro and extra text you can place a check mark when you want markdown to be active.

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### Markdown formatting
The overview below describes the elements that can be useful for formatting your text while writing in Markdown.

###### Header:
CoManage uses three different sizes for formatting headings. The largest size header is formatted as follows, by preceding your header with one hash (#):

```# Header 1```
Header type 2 and type 3 are then formatted as follows, preceded by two or three hashes, respectively:

```## Header 2

### Header 3```

######  Start text on a new line:
After your text, press the enter key once to start a new line. Press the enter key twice to add an extra blank line, which is useful for separating paragraphs.

###### Italic text:
You provide italicized text by surrounding a word, or group of words, with one asterisk (*) (also called an "asterisk") each time:

```*This text will be displayed in italics*```

###### Bold text:
Bold text is provided by surrounding a word, or group of words, with two asterisks () (also called "asterisks") each time:

```**This text will be displayed in bold**```

###### Horizontal line:
You add a horizontal line by providing three hyphens on a new line as follows:

```---```

###### Bulleted list:
A bulleted list is created by providing each item in the bulleted list with one asterisk (*). A subsequent item is added on a new line by pressing the enter key once:

```* apples
* pears
* plums```

###### Numbered enumeration list:
A numbered enumeration list is created by labeling each item in the enumeration with the desired number. A subsequent item is added on a new line by pressing the enter key once:

```1. apples
2. pears
3. plums```

###### Links:
A link to a Web page in your text is created by surrounding the "link text" with square brackets ( [ ] ). Then, without a space after the last square bracket ( ] ), enter the address of the page you want to link to. This address reference, in turn, you place between round brackets. The whole thing can look like this:

```[link to Google](http://www.google.com)```

Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown).