How to insert markdown text into my Confluence Page?

Alan Moore_cz8gim

I am attempting to insert markdown text into an existing Confluence page and it keeps displaying the markdown as a code snippet rather than interpreting the markdown and translating into Confluence format.  I tried `/markdown` but that did nothing and I was unable to find any Markdown or Markup macros under the `+` menu.

For example, I inserted this:

 

## Overview

and Confluence did this:

Stephen Deutsch

Hello Alan,

If it's an option for you to be able to install an app, you could try using this app: Render Markdown 

This would allow you to keep your text in markdown format.

As the other answerers have stated, there used to be an easy way to convert markdown text in the old editor, but this was removed in the new editor, and while you can type markdown line by line, there's no easy way to convert multiple lines.

To tell if you're in new/old editor mode, the old editor will have a "publish" button at the bottom of the page, and the new editor will have an "update" button at the top of the page.