Copy/Paste tables from Confluence to Word/Outlook

[Wayne Jolly]

I cannot say it is a bug - as I do not know whether it used to work.

Copying a table with a numbered column, and pasting into an email or word, just comes up with the contents.

Yes you can then use Word/Outlook to add some sort of borders around each cell - but minus the number column. I would have expected the pasted result to look like the original?

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Wayne Jolly 

The trick is to copy the table from the View mode, not from the Edit mode.

Just select the content of the table (as you would any text, holding Shift to scroll to the bottom to select all works) and paste the content into MS Word.

I just tested it and it worked like a charm.

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Wayne Jolly welcome to Atlassian community.

Please be informed, when you copy a table from a Confluence page, your browser places the data onto your clipboard in several different formats, including plain text and HTML. Word and Outlook then attempt to choose the best format to paste, but they often struggle to perfectly translate the web-based styling (CSS) for complex elements like tables and numbered lists within cells.

I would say, this isn't an issue with Confluence, but a general cross-application clipboard limitation that affects many web-to-desktop copy-paste scenarios.

Kindly go through this official documentations for steps and details:

• Export a space's content as Word, PDF, or data files (For Cloud)
• Export Content to Word, PDF, HTML and XML (For Data Center 10.0)
• Export content from Confluence Cloud