Paragraph Style Gone from Confluence Cloud?

Question

It seems that "Paragraph" style has gone from confluence cloud? "Normal" is bigger, there's no way to decrease font size.  This seems to be only for newly added pages.

PS: For OCD folks this is not a good day. I am a net promoter of Atlassian at home and work, but dread every update. Atlassian, please recognise that your primary users are certain types of "special" folks who work mainly in IT that take change much harder that your product and UX people that impart ongoing distress on the former by constantly "improving" products. Out of all companies you should know this!

PSS: Preformatted and Quote seem to have gone as well??

sallyj · Answer

I agree with Zoryana. Many of our users are very disappointed with the formatting changes as we are migrating to Cloud. We created all of our content in Data Center/legacy editor, so pages were laid out to take that into account. Now, the font size increased, as did the space between lines. In addition, we are seeing equal spacing between paragraphs and lines within a paragraph. This makes it much less readable and degrades the readers' experience.

Zoryana Bohutska _SaaSJet_ · Answer

Hi @Diego

Thanks for the explanation!

In addition, I've noticed that the new editor degrades the quality of uploaded images. Can this be changed somehow?

Regards

Zoryana

Diego_88dj6o · Answer

Hello @Joe Bloggs  and @Zoryana Bohutska _SaaSJet_ !

You are right, some naming convention or element placement has changed with the new Editor in Confluence. The difference you noticed is due to the fact that now you are using the New Editor called Fabric:

* [Confluence Cloud] Learn about Confluence Cloud editing improvements
* [Confluence Cloud] Confluence Cloud editor roadmap

The “Normal Text” is equivalent to the “Paragraph” we had in the Legacy Editor (tinyMCE). The aesthetic differences between the New Editor (Fabric) and Legacy Editor (tinyMCE) are due to different design choices.

If you need to create preformatted text in line, you can go to the three dots option that is found to the right of the Italic option and select the “Code” option. Or press CMD+SHIFT+M (macOS) or CTRL+SHIFT+M (Windows):

The quote option is now found under the “Insert” menu (the + button with a down arrow):

You can also summon the quote element by using the > character.

Here is our documentation about the editing experience and shortcuts in Confluence Cloud:

* [Confluence Cloud] Format your page
* [Confluence Cloud] Keyboard shortcuts, markdown, and autocomplete

I hope this  clarifies how the new editor works!

Let us hear from you.