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During a Word import - how can I map Word-styles to Confluence-styles?

Robert E_ Schneider August 3, 2018

We want to turn our manuals into confluence pages. We use the "Import Word document" function for this and have the document split at level 1.

The Word documents are long (some have 600 pages and more) and they use a plethora of Word-styles. 

I found that the word style "Header 1" (in German: "Überschrift 1") will automatically cause the system to create a fresh sub-page, when its hit. And in my import I can see that "Header 2" ("Überschrift 2") is automtically converted to Confluence's "Header 1".

During a former upload I didn't have "Überschrift 1" in my document but a completely different name. With this different name the import program was unable to find where to split my document and I ended up with on very long Confluence-page.

Question 1: how do I know, which Word-stlyes are recognized by the import function and to which Confluence-styles they are mapped?

Then I have a situation where a Word-style is indented. When I look at the standard formatting options in Confluence that would be a combination of a regular "Paragraph" style plus indentation. 

Question 2: is there any way that I can make the import function reproduce this combination?

Then threr are situations where the style is "Standard" but then someone manually added numbered list. So in Word you see: "Standard + Numbered List".

Question 3: is there a way I can reproduce that during the import?

And finally: it looks as if the import does not put a <br> line break wherever a Word paragraph was. So, if I have a numbered list in Word, right now it is converted to several lines:

Word:
1. Apples
2. Pears
3. Bananas

Confluence import:
Apples
Pears
Bananas

If the import gave me a numbered list right from the start I'd be glad.

But if I don't get that and want to re-format the lines manually I can mark the first line and tell the system to make that a numbered list by pressing the button in the menu. But for some reason Confluence does not "see" that the line ends after the Apples.

So, when I mark the Apples-line and press the "numbered list" button, I get this:

1. Apples
    Pears
    Bananas

I can remedy this by first moving the cursor to the end of each line and pressing "Enter" and then "Delete". This way I add a "Confluence-style" paragraph end and I remove the one that was inserted by the import. Once I have done that for each line I can mark all of them, press the "Numbered List" button and I will get:

1. Apples
2. Pears
3. Bananas

It seems to me, as if the import function does not replace the Word-paragraph with Confluence's equivalent.

Question 4: Is there anything that I can do about this?

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Robert E_ Schneider August 3, 2018

Additional info: I noticed this when looking at the imported document in the source editor:
The import function uses a <br/> wherever there is a paragraph-end in the Word-document.

When I press enter, I produce a </p>

Can I customize this somehow?

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