Why is there not a way in Cloud to work off of Office 365 like on prem?

[Nikki DuBois]

We need to have a good way to collaborate on a word doc or excel and with this feature not moved to the cloud it makes it hard to adopt confluence. Why is this not part of the cloud if it is on prem?

[Harald Seyr]

Hi @Nikki DuBois ,

also please consider using M365 / Sharepoint when working with documents. If your style of collaboration is to share documents, then Confluence is not the right tool for you.

Documents (word, excel, ppt) => MS world, Sharepoint

Wiki / pages / linked information => Confluence

Mixing those two worlds is probably a combination of disadvantages, not advantages.

Regards,

Harald

[Nikki DuBois]

yes agreed mixing those two worlds does have both! Trying to really have one source of truth to help support implementation but without this capability it makes it almost impossible. :)

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Nikki DuBois 

Are you sure that your ability to work collaboratively on Office 365 entities in Confluence  on-prem was a native feature of on-prem? I'm not actually finding any documentation that indicates that was a native feature, but I could be missing it.

[Nikki DuBois]

This was not a native feature but there was the capability in doing so: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/edit-in-office-using-the-office-connector-170493096.html

[Trudy Claspill]

There is an app for connecting Confluence Cloud to Office 365.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217864/microsoft-sharepoint-onedrive-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud