You can display and view an Office document that is attached to a Confluence page. If you have an Office application installed, you will also be able to edit the Office document in your Office application.

This is just one of the ways Confluence can interact with Office documents. For an overview of all Office Connector features, please refer to Working with the Office Connector.

(info) Your System Administrator can enable or disable the Office Connector or parts of it. The Office Connector options can appear in different places on your Confluence page, depending on the themes and configuration of your Confluence site. Please refer to Configuring the Office Connector in the Confluence Administration Guide and discuss any configuration problems with your administrator.

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Prerequisites

Attaching and Displaying an Office Document

To attach and display an Office document in Confluence,

  1. Attach the Office document to a Confluence page:
    • View the Confluence page where you want to display your document.
    • Open the 'Tools' menu and select 'Attachments'.
    • Browse for your Office document and upload it to the Confluence page.
      You will find detailed instructions in Attaching Files to a Page.
  2. Now you have two options for displaying the attached document:
    • You can display the document embedded into the Confluence page, via the Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint or View PDF macros in the macro browser. Refer to the detailed instructions on the View File macro.
    • You can also display a list of attachments via the attachments macro. People viewing the page will be able to click the 'View' link to see the Office or PDF document in Confluence.
      (info) Alternatively, you can use the Wiki Markup syntax 
      {attachments}
      .

Viewing and Editing the Attached Office Document

Any Confluence user who has an Office application installed will also be able to launch their Office editor from within Confluence:

Troubleshooting

Problems? Please refer to our guide to the Office Connector limitations and known issues.

RELATED TOPICS

View File Macro
Working with the Office Connector

Configuring the Office Connector in the Confluence Administration Guide

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