Translating with Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx)
Video Tutorial: Translate HTML email designs with localization in Figma
This video walks through how to translate HTML email designs with localization in Figma using the Emailify plugin.
Click the Localize button in the Emailify header toolbar and choose the Excel option to export your design text into an .xlsx spreadsheet. You can select one or more target locales first, then click Export XLSX to generate the translation file from your selected email frames.
You can fill in the locale columns in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or any spreadsheet app that preserves the original headers. When you are ready, drag the updated .xlsx file back into Emailify and import it. Emailify will create translated cloned frames on a new page for each locale you included in the spreadsheet.
Using Markdown Formatting
Video Tutorial: Localize HTML email designs (with text formatting) in Figma
This video walks through how to localize HTML email designs with markdown text formatting in Figma using the Emailify plugin.
If your email copy includes rich text formatting, enable the Use Markdown toggle before exporting or importing. This lets Emailify preserve bold, italic, and linked text in a format that can safely move through spreadsheet or AI translation workflows.
For AI localization methods in Emailify, the Use Markdown option is enabled by default so inline links and formatting are exported with the context needed to round-trip back into Figma correctly. You can still disable it if you intentionally want plain text only.
After editing the exported spreadsheet, keep the Use Markdown toggle enabled on import and Emailify will parse supported markdown formatting and re-apply it to the translated Figma text layers.
Emailify currently supports inline markdown formatting for bold, italic, bold italic, hyperlinks, and line breaks. Avoid adding headings, lists, code blocks, tables, or other markdown syntax that is outside of those supported inline text features.
Supported markdown formatting
- You can specify Bold text by using double asterisks around the text, for example,
**Text to bold** - You can specify Italic text by using single underscores around the text, for example,
_Italic Text_ - You can specify Bold Italic text by using double asterisks and one underscore around the text, for example,
**_Italic Text_** - You can specify hyperlinks by using the markdown syntax of
This is [my link here](https://example.com) in a text paragraph(you can also format the link text by adding the bold/italic syntax inside of the link's[]text area).
Other localization workflows
Emailify also supports localization with dedicated translation platforms and AI translation providers:
The AI translation providers each support two workflows in Emailify: a direct API translation option and a manual prompt option that generates a CSV translation prompt for you to run in the provider's own app.