How to hide Word export option from Page information section
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Summary
A Confluence administrator may wish to hide the ability for users to export a page to Word.
There are 2 areas in which a user can export a page to Word.
The first is via the ellipsis menu on a page:
The second is in the page information section for a page:
Environment
7.13.7
Solution
Hide the option from the ellipsis menu:
We can add the following HTML to the "At the end of HEAD" section in Confluence Admin > Custom HTML.
1 2 3<style type="text/css"> #action-export-word-link{ display: none} </style>
The option to 'Export to Word' is now missing from the ellipsis menu:
Hide the option in the 'Page Information' section
We can add another line to our custom HTML.
1 2 3<style type="text/css"> #exportToMsWord{ display: none} </style>
Once added the link for exporting the page as Word option is no longer visible in page information:
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