How to hide Word export option from Page information section

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Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the server and data center platforms.

Summary

In some instances a confluence administrator may wish to hide the ability for users to export a page to word.

There are 2 areas that 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

  • To 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.

    <style type="text/css"> 
    #action-export-word-link{ display: none} 
    </style>



  • The option to export to word is now missing from the ellipsis menu:


  • To also hide the option in the page information section we can add another line to our custom HTML.

    <style type="text/css"> 
    #action-export-word-link{ display: none} 
    #exportToMsWord{ display: none} 
    </style>



  • Once added the export to word option is no longer visible in page information:



Last modified on Oct 31, 2022

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