The Excerpt macro is used to mark a part of a page's content for re-use. By itself, the Excerpt macro does not change the display of a page. However, defining an excerpt enables other macros, such as the Excerpt Include and Blog Posts macros to display the marked content elsewhere.

(info) You can only define one excerpt per page. In other words, you can only add the Excerpt macro once to a page.

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Using the Excerpt Macro

To add the Excerpt macro to a page:

  1. In the Confluence editor, choose Insert > Other Macros.
  2. Find and select the required macro.

Speeding up macro entry with autocomplete:

Type { and the beginning of the macro name, to see a list of suggested macros. Details are in Using Autocomplete.

To edit an existing macro: Click the macro placeholder and choose Edit. This will display the parameters of the macro in the Macro Browser.

You can then add content to the body of the Excerpt macro placeholder.

Parameters

Parameters are options that you can set to control the content or format of the macro output.

Parameter

Default

Description

Hide Excerpted Content

false

Controls whether the page content contained in the Excerpt macro placeholder is displayed on the page.

Related Topics

Excerpt Include Macro
Working with Macros

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