If you’re a spreadsheet power user working in Confluence, you’ve probably been here:
You’ve built a sophisticated financial model in Excel or Google Sheets. It has multi-tab logic, advanced formulas, beautiful charts, the works. But when it’s time to share that data with your team in Confluence?
You’re stuck doing this:
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Copy a giant table into a Confluence page
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Screenshot a chart (and pray it stays relevant)
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Add comments like “see tab 3 for breakdown”
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Leave yourself a reminder to re-update everything next week
And suddenly, your powerful spreadsheet becomes a clunky, static artifact.
That weekly report you spent hours fine-tuning? It’s now just a snapshot of a moment in time; disconnected from your source data and hard to maintain.
Spreadsheets are great for analysis. But terrible for storytelling.
Why this is a real problem
Let’s be honest: Confluence wasn’t built for spreadsheets. But spreadsheets weren’t built for collaboration.
When you’re juggling multiple product lines, revenue streams, or budget categories, your reporting needs to be:
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Dynamic. Data should update as numbers change.
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Visual. Trends should be obvious at a glance.
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Relevant. The right insight in the right place.
Instead, you’re stuck in a vicious cycle:
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Update your spreadsheet
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Screenshot or re-export the chart
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Paste it into Confluence
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Repeat is all over again, every time the data changes
It’s inefficient, it’s error-prone. And it turns reporting into a maintenance nightmare.
When data is buried behind outdated screenshots and massive tables, it loses its impact. You're doing all the work, but the story gets lost in translation.
🧠 The Fix: Excerpt Macro
Our new Excerpt Macro lets you insert a cell, a selected range or a chart from an existing Excel-like Table into any Confluence page — and it stays synced with the data.
Here’s how it works:
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You are on any Confluence page
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Insert the Excerpt Macro
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Choose the Excel-like Table on your space (you can create one anywhere)
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Select the chart you want to display
That’s it! Now, when the table is updated, your chart updates too.
No more screenshots!
No more “edit → switch tab → check chart → copy again” routine.
Just one place to view, share, and stay in sync.
Example: My Multi-Product Digital Revenue Sheet
As a Product Manager in Ricksoft, I manage multiple products:
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CodeCrate
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GlyphPop
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SketchMate
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UiBolt
Each has income types like product sales, subscriptions, add-ons, and affiliate revenue. The spreadsheet has:
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A top-level summary
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Individual sheets for each product
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Detailed breakdowns of refunds, discounts, and revenue
All charts are built directly in the table.
Then, from my report page, I:
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Insert the Excerpt Chart Macro
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Select my Excel-like Table
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Pick charts like AddOnBreakdown, RevenueByProduct, or RefundsVsSales
💥 Boom — clean, visual, and accurate reporting with zero duplication.
Why this matters for Excel power users
You don’t need to change how you work. You just stop duplicating effort.
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Without Excerpt Chart Macro
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With Excerpt Chart Macro
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Screenshot charts repeatedly
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Pull live charts directly
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Manually sync across tabs/pages
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One update updates all
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Share full tables
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Share just the insight
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“See tab 4”
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See what matters, right here
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TLDR
If you’re building powerful spreadsheets inside Confluence, your data already has value.
Now you can finally show it properly — no noise, no copy-paste loops.
The Excerpt Chart Macro gives you:
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The power of Excel-like logic
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The clarity of Confluence presentation
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And none of the maintenance mess
One chart. One macro. Endless clarity.
While this post focused on charts (because let’s be honest — they’re the easiest way to see impact), the Excerpt Macro isn’t limited to visualizations.
You can also use it to embed:
Whether it’s a number, a table snippet, or a chart — it stays synced and always up to date.
Supercharge your reporting
The Excerpt Macro is a new feature in Excel-like Tables for Confluence, built to transform the way teams share insights in Confluence.
👉 Try Excel-like Tables for Confluence on the Atlassian Marketplace
