Confluence Cloud - How to use a macro?

Jeroen Beunckens

I am trying out confluence because we might bring it into our company.

No macro's are working for me, typing { won't do anything.

I'm trying to insert an anchor point on my page so that I can click one a link somewhere and it will take me to that anchor.
I have searched all over the internet to try and get it to work but I can't.
I see it is under "Basic Macros" that are under credon.atlassian.net and that it is enabled. 

Shannon S

Hello Jeroen,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's nice to have you!

An email went out recently highlighting the changes in Confluence Cloud, and there's a new editor that uses a different shortcut to insert macros. I suspect this might be what you're using. Macros can now be inserted by typing a forward slash ( / )

Here's a page that explains the changes in an overview:

• Confluence Editing Improvements

We have a discussion on Community going in case you have any questions about it!

• Try out the new editing experience

Lastly, you can see our roadmap below for any features that you might be missing:

• Confluence Cloud Editor Roadmap

On the above Roadmap, it notes that in particular, the Anchor Macro is not currently available in the new editor.

The anchor macro is temporarily unavailable, but in the meantime, you can use these workarounds:

Add a table of contents macro to your page

This automatically generates anchor links for each page header. To find those links, right-click (or on mobile, long-press) any of the headers in the table of contents, and copy the link address.

Use page headers as anchors

Anchors are automatically generated for each page header. To link to one, use the https://pageURL#headingtext. The anchor text must be formatted as it is on the page, including punctuation marks, but without spaces.

For example, to link to this section, we would add #Anchors to the page URL.

I hope that clarifies things for you, but do let me know if you continue to have any issues.

Regards,

Shannon