Paste with formatting and single spacing

[Bryan Hord]

Is there a way to paste with formatting and retain single spacing? Is there a hidden configuration or something?

[Bill Bailey]

No. Confluence is not a WYSIWYG editor like Word. It is web based, so a mix of HTML and CSS. You would need to change the space CSS to change the line spacing.

When you copy and paste, some of the formatting is kept, much of it is stripped out when you save.

[Bryan Hord]

OK, other web based editors, web mail, web forms, and other wikis do not seem to have this particular behavior of inserting double spacing when pasting from other web based sources. It is peculiar to Confluence.

[Bill Bailey]

Maybe a different issue. That you have breaks between lines. Past into notepad first, then into Confluence to clean out the formatting.

[Bryan Hord]

There are no issues with copying and pasting from web sources to web mail, web forms, or other wikis. Pasting into confluence is the only place that creates the double spacing.  Copying from Confluence to any of these web based editors does not cause double spacing and retains most of the formatting. The issue follows Confluence.

[Bill Bailey]

What I think is happening is you are getting empty P tags between lines. The other web editors may doing some filtering to remove those.

I am just letting you know what I have done to get around the issue. It is best to be pasting clean text into Confluence.

[Bryan Hord]

Thank you for your replies. I understand that Atlassian allows two choices, paste with formatting and double spacing or paste without formatting and single spacing. This is different than other web based editors found in email and other apps. And that is unfortunate.

[Bill Bailey]

Might be, but it is what it is. ;-)

[Bryan Hord]

Yeah, that's true. Again thank you for your thoughtful replies! I will work out something else. If I find something interesting, I will put it here.