Copy plain text and transform it into a Macro

[Eli Plewka]

I have tables with thousands of lines. I would like to pre-format these tables before copying and pasting them into confluence. The main trouble is that each of these lines gets a "/panel" macro. Is there a way to add that text (or something analogous) to the correct cells elsewhere, and have Confluence recognize them as macros when I paste it in? 

[Marc - Devoteam · Accepted solution]

HI @Eli Plewka 

Welcome to the community.

No this is not an option.

Pasting plain text on a page swill be plain text, text using "macro" like content will not be converted to a macro.

[Eli Plewka]

Dang. Any chance this could be done with a user macro? I'm picturing something that would scan the page looking for that key text and trigger confluence to convert it to the macro.

[Marc - Devoteam]

This might be possible, but I have looked into this.

Reviewing the documentation on user macro, I still doubt it.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html