How to hide Word export option from Page information section
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:
- The first is via the ellipsis menu on 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: