Copy placeholder text

[Mick Szucs]

Hi all,

I have a confluence template that makes extensive use of placeholder text, and I want to provide a sample document that makes the placeholder text visible.

It seems like copying placeholder text into a new document inserts it as another placeholder, which makes it invisible on the published document.

Is there any way to "convert" placeholder text into visible text, or do I have to re-type everything into the new doc?

Thanks!

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mick Szucs 

No, I don't think there is something you can do about it unfortunately. I mean you can't convert it. Currently you can't even select it. :/

See this post https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-edit-instructional-text-in-the-new-editor/qaq-p/1309370#:~:text=Clicking%20the%20bookmarklet%20once%20on,it%20copied%20to%20your%20clipboard.

As well as this suggestion https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67333

[Mick Szucs]

Thank-you, Alex.

I ended up just copying the placeholder text to a Word doc and then re-pasting into my Confluence doc, which was tedious, but did the job.