Copy and Paste

[Claysa Diamond]

I'm attempting to copy a 60 page document into confluence so as to better work/edit it with my team. However, when I paste into a Blank Page on Confluence, a good majority of my words are put together and there are a lot of errors that get translated within the text. Any way to do this differently to avoid the errors? 

[Thomas Bowskill]

Hi @Claysa Diamond 

I would recommend these options to try (in order):

1. Use the Confluence Office Connector functionality, which loads in the Word doc itself (not a copy and paste), which gives you a better chance of the document being understood correctly. Atlassian has a guide for importing Word documents that is worth a read
2. (This step is a pure guess) maybe try saving your Word Doc as a .doc file (opposed to docx, as it may dumb-down some of the richer formatting and make it more import-friendly -- total speculation though!
3. If the above fails, another (albeit a bit arduous) step would be to copy and paste sections of the Word doc to a text editor (e.g. Notepad) to remove all formatting. Downside is that if your document contains a lot of formatting you will have to re-do all this