Customize page or document style format

[Laurie H]

I've been dismayed to discover that there is no way to customize the style/format at a page level. To be sure, I am not referring to spaces. There are no plugins that will do this.

I've tried Aura and that not it. Aura is fine if you want to design a page that only others will use. But if you have an environment where many authors need to be creating content, and you want to provide a user-friendly template, this is not it.

I find myself asking, what is the actual use-case for Confluence?

[Brant Schroeder]

@Laurie H I believe you are correct.  If you are trying to add any formatting outside what is delivered the only app I can think of is refined.  As far as use cases I am not sure I am following you.  There are a lot of ways to use Confluence, you can learn more here: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence  

[Laurie H]

It may be a misuse of Confluence, but we have 30-40 people regularly authoring training material. (This material is later copied to a proprietary hosting system.) But it would make it easier for authors and reviewers if a lengthy training piece could have certain types of visual cues or separators. For example, a heavy green rule to denote, say, a student exercise. So, that's the type of thing I'm looking for.

[Brant Schroeder]

How is the information stored in the external system?  Confluence has page macros like info panels,  success panel, etc that is exactly what you are discribing.

[Laurie H]

Those panels are somewhat useful. But I just want to be able to modify Header 1, Header 2, etc., and maybe create a few other default style sheets in the dropdown list. We also use Confluence for certain types of internal documentation, and I find the delivered style sheets limiting. oh well