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The Confluence editor supports most text effects available in standard text editing applications.

See also Using the Editor.

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Applying Paragraph Styles

Choose a paragraph style from the editor toolbar, or click in the paragraph and use one of the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+(0–8) .

Screenshot: Choosing paragraph styles from the editor toolbar

Applying Character Formats

To apply a character format, select the text and click one of the editor toolbar buttons, or use a keyboard shortcut. Some formats are available from the 'More' menu.

Screenshot: Text formatting buttons on the editor toolbar

Format

Shortcut Key

Bold

Ctrl+B

Italics

Ctrl+I

Underline

Ctrl+U

Strikethrough

Ctrl+Shift+S

Subscript

none

Superscript

none

Monospace

none

(info) Choose Clear Formatting from the 'More' menu to remove all formatting.

Applying Text Colours

To apply colour to text, select the text and click the 'Colour' button. Choose which colour is applied using the 'More colours' button.

Screenshot: Picking colours from the editor toolbar

Related Topics

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  1. May 03, 2010

    Anonymous

    Is there a way to add new heading styles in the drop-down menu?

    1. May 14, 2010

      Husein Alatas [Atlassian]

      Hi,

      I am afraid that this is not currently possible. Feel free to raise a feature request at http://jira.atlassian.com and describe in detail how you require this feature to work. Please add yourself as a watcher, vote for this feature and add your own comments to this feature request. For further details on how we include new features and improvements, you might want to read this page

      Cheers,
      Husein

  2. Jun 22, 2010

    Anonymous

    Hello,

    I am having trouble finding any documentation on how to Center text on a page.  Is there a way to do this?  Any help is appreciated!

    Thanks,

    Stuart

    1. Aug 12, 2010

      Sashidaran Jayaraman [Atlassian]

      Hi Stuart,

      Currently, there's no straight forward way of doing it. The easiest way is to download the Content Formatting Macros and use the {center} macro.

      Hope this helps.

      Cheers
      JSashi

    2. Aug 22, 2010

      Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian]

      Hi Stuart,

      If you have administrator permissions, you can just create your own Writing User Macros to center your text.

      Define the macro to take a body, output HTML, and as the template enter:

      Hope that helps,
      Mark

  3. Mar 25, 2011

    Kevin French

    Hi,

    I am trying to add a numbered list, or something similar, that looks more like the following.

    1.

      1.1.

    2.

      2.1.

        2.1.1.

      2.2.

    3.

    Currently numbered list go from numbers to lower case letters to roman numerals.

    A subset to this question, if I place other content that isn't in the numbered list and then I start with the numbered list again the values restart at 1, how do I get them to continue throughout the page? 

    thanks,

    Kevin

    1. Oct 10, 2011

      Anonymous

      Kevin,

      Did you find an answer to this problem? I am trying to do the same thing.

      1. Oct 10, 2011

        Kevin French

        Unfortunately I have not found an answer for this.  Someone did try to help but what they offered was the Table of Contents macro, which kinda worked but resulted in duplicate text.

    2. Oct 24, 2011

      Anonymous

      You can modify the stylesheet and use CSS 3 components to do this.

       

      http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-lists/

  4. Oct 26, 2011

    Anonymous

    For what it's worth:

    I have been trying to find a way to have a web URL show up as plain text (plain in the sense that it looks and acts like the rest of the text). I usually work in Wiki Markup mode, but I can't find a way in either that or the Rich Text mode. For example, the following line would appear in the wiki:

    Copy and paste http://atlassian.com into some field.

    Here, it automatically detects the web address and makes it clickable. I don't what that. I want it to be in line and not pushed down like with {noformat} macro, even with the nopanel=true switch. So to make it look exactly like that, but not clickable, I did this

    Copy and paste {color:blue}http://atlassian.com{color} into some field.

    The colon character entity disrupts the auto-linking and makes the text appear as just text.

    If anyone has a better way of doing it, I'd be interested. the monospace markup {{}} doesn't do the trick.

    --Aaron

  5. Nov 11, 2011

    Anonymous

    Hi, is it possible to move the Title of the page to the center by using style macro that applies only a the specific wiki page?

    Please note that we don't have Confluence Admin permissions to create any user macro. Thanks

  6. Jan 17, 2012

    Bren Lane

    How do you change font colors outside the basic palette provided?  The previous version had More Colors that you could enter the html color code, however I don't see that in this version.

  7. Jan 25, 2012

    Wayne Bruinette

    Hi,

    How can I change the line spacing between formatted text?

    With the old wiki markup editor we could enter text:

    like this

    and this

    and this

    except without the huge line spaces between the text.