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The page describes the software and setup you need to use the Office Connector.
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. (Not applicable to Confluence OnDemand.)
Overall prerequisites
- Ensure that Java 5 (JDK 1.5) or higher is installed on your Confluence server.
- The WebDAV plugin must be enabled, because the Office Connector uses WebDAV to transfer information to and from Office documents. Note that the WebDAV plugin is bundled with Confluence, and can be enabled or disabled by the System Administrator. If necessary, refer to the instructions on enabling plugins and configuring the WebDAV options.
- Ensure that your Confluence server's base URL is set correctly. (Check it by going to the 'General Configuration' screen in the Confluence Administration Console, as described in Configuring the Server Base URL.) When a user edits a wiki page in Word and then uploads the page back to the Confluence server, the base URL determines where the document will be saved. If the base URL is incorrect, the documents may be saved to a different Confluence server.
Prerequisites for viewing Office and PDF files in Confluence
If you want to use the View File macro, or to view Office files attached to a Confluence page, you need the setup described below.
Browsers and Flash Player
You can use any browser to view an Office file on a wiki page or attachment view, provided that you have installed Adobe Flash Player version 9 or later. You do not need to have an Office desktop application installed on your computer in order to view Office files in Confluence.
File Types
Confluence can display files compatible with Microsoft Office 97-2007, and PDF files, of the following types:
.docand.docx.xlsand.xlsx.pptand.pptx.pdf
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Related pages:
- Working with the Office Connector
- Configuring the Office Connector (Not applicable to Confluence OnDemand.)
- Confluence User's Guide
The information on this page does not apply to Atlassian OnDemand sites with multiple apps. If you are using Confluence-only OnDemand, the information does apply.
Prerequisites for importing Word documents into Confluence
- Document import can import Microsoft Word documents of the file types
.docand.docx. These must be valid Word 97-2007 format documents.
Prerequisites for editing Office files directly from Confluence
The Office Connector allows you to edit Office files embedded in a wiki page or from the page's attachments view.
To make use of these editing capabilities, you will need the setup described below.
Browsers
- The WebDAV plugin required to edit Office documents can't be used with Firefox 57 (Quantum) or later, as Firefox has ended support for the technology it relies on. Earlier versions of Firefox should still work with the Firefox Add-On for the Office Connector.
- Note: No Chrome support. Chrome does not support WEBDAV clients, so this feature will not work. Please refer to this issue for more information: CONF-23322.
Office editors
To edit Office files, you will need to have Microsoft Office or OpenOffice installed. (See the configuration matrix below.)
- If you are using Firefox, you can choose which of the above editors you want to use. The Firefox add-on allows you to configure this option for each file type. See Installing the Firefox Add-On for the Office Connector.
- If you are using Internet Explorer, you will need Microsoft Office. You cannot edit Office files in OpenOffice when using Internet Explorer.
Configuration matrix
You need one of the following software combinations to edit Office files from your wiki page:
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