Better way to display excel?

[Deborah Cross]

When we've embedded excel spreadsheets in confluence (cloud) they never come up looking like a spreadsheet. It shows like a PDF with no gridlines instead of showing, what I think would be more valuable, the worksheet grid view. 

Is this just the way it is, or is something strange going on for us?

[Shardul Juyal {Addteq}]

Hi Deborah,

I assume you are embedding the excel. Try bordering the excel before embedding, that sometimes solves the issue,

if you are Ok with Add-ons you can try Excellentable for Confluence.
You will be able to import and edit spreadsheets right inside confluence with this plugin.

[Deborah Cross]

I'm not sure about embedding, I'm just using the file attach option, then click on the link to open it and it looks like that. 

[Shardul Juyal {Addteq}]

Yes, just attaching.

Try adding all borders before attaching to the confluence page. Here is a comparison

Sheet Imported

Attached to Confluence with Insert-->File&Images
Note the slight margins of below table disappear, but remain in the above table "All borders"

Excellentable Attach
Shows the complete spreadsheet editable within confluence

[Deborah Cross]

Thanks Shardal, I appreciate you trying to help, but I think really that it has just answered my question - there's no decent option in confluence natively. Confluence seems to make it's own page breaks where-ever it likes and doesn't honour the spreadsheet settings. 

I am reluctant to do it via plug in, I'll see what the appetite is to spend for such a feature.