Can a Confluence table column with emails be easily copied and pasted into MSOutlook address list?

[Deleted user]

I have a Confluence page with a table I inserted.  One column is emails.  I need to copy selected emails into MS Outlook address list to send correspondence.  Can I do this easily?  I see I can click on the active email to create 1 message to for each email; however I want to send 1 message to a group of emails.

Using Confluence edit function I was able to copy and paste in MS Outlook; however the required  ";" separator does not show up in Outlook.

I also tried exporting the file to MSWord but have the same issue with the separator.  

My outlook paste options are set to defaults.    Played with this a bit but no success.

I'm sure I'm probably missing an obvious step :)   THanks in advance for assistance

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@[deleted] Welcome to Confluence!

This is something I do all of the time. By selecting the column with the email addresses and pasting into Outlook, you will get all of the emails without the semicolon delimiter. Just click on the Check Names icon and it should format all emails and place a separator between them.

Good luck!

[Deleted user]

Hi Andy,  Appreciate your quick response!

How are you selecting the column data from the Confluence table - in view mode, edit mode?  Since I seem to get column information too when I paste into Outlook with either mode. 

I was successful when exporting to word and then opening the file as long as I ensure that the emails in Confluence don't have active links in the table.   Do you know if there is a way to bulk remove active email links in a table with over 100 or more emails?

I need to check out the training too....may be too new to Confluence ;)

Many thanks!

[Andy Gladstone]

Edit mode. Select the column, CTRL-C and then CTRL-V in the To, CC or BCC in Outlook. Works like a charm every time!

If you are looking for Confluence training module, let me know, I can suggest some.

[Andy Gladstone]

@[deleted] If my answer helped you, please mark it accepted to help other users find it when experiencing similar challenges.

[Deleted user]

@Andy Gladstone    I do appreciate your follow-up and responses. I may need to check out the training pointers since I'm still getting the column identifiers when I cut and past in edit mode.  

[Konstantin _DSR Corporation_]

Hey there,

Probably a late response, but with Iota Copy plugin you should be able to populate email list in the Outlook easily. All you need is to add Iota Copy button to the page, check "Open email" parameter and add emails in the "To" parameter of the button, and publish the page. After that - one click and email opened with prepopulated list of recipients.