shortcut for linking to other pages?

[hob]

I havent used wikis or confluence for some years, but one of the more powerful features was to simply type in [somepage] to either create the page if it was not there or link to it if it was.  I am pretty sure confluence used to have a way to do the latter at least, but cant find it.  The only option I can see is to use the link icon at the top of the editing area, which is much slower.

Anyone?

[Dominic Lagger · Accepted solution]

Hi @hob 

I have the same "issue". I think, this is the behaviour from the new editor.

Try to press "ctrl-K". This gives you the same result as the "[" in the old editor.

Hope this helped a bit.

Regards, Dominic

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The square bracket still works.  In edit mode hit [ and wait a sec, it will go grey, then start offering you some page names, web links and search.

If you're linking in the same Confluence, always use [page name] or [space: page name] as that keeps internal links during any migrations. 

I also quite like that you can put in [something that does not exist] and you'll get it underlined in red, and it's a reminder to create a new page.

[hob]

for some reason [ does not work for me, even if I wait. Its just treated as a character.  nor does [PageName].  it's just text.  This is in the confluence wiki pages when you edit them or create them.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Hmm.  Are you sure it's on Cloud?  My Cloud installs all happily go grey and pop a box almost immediately.  I'm not aware of a way to turn it off in cloud either.

[Dominic Lagger]

I can confirm this. In my free cloud version, the "[" doesn't work.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

D'oh!  I just realised I tested with a page created before the new editor was added.

Yes, the [ won't work on new pages created and edited with the new editor, but exactly as you say in your answer - ctrl-k does.

[hob]

I have the enterprise level cloud product for our organisation.