Create product wiki page in confluence using word document

soelay July 15, 2024

Hi,

I have product document info in MS word with table of content. i used import function in confluence , it created 1 page with all the content in. is there a way i can have multiple confluence pages based on table of content by importing this document? if yes, how can i do that?

images are also not properly imported. it show "failed to import image". anyway to address this without doing it manually again?

appreciate your advice. Thanks. 

 

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Kristian Klima
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July 15, 2024

@soelay 

You can import multiple word docs to create a structure but if you import a single file, you will end up with a single page.

Image import consistency is a major issue with word file imports.

Speaking from experience, the fastest method is to simply copy/paste sections of your word doc to individual Confluence pages.

It also produces better results.

You can try a workaround and open your word file in Google docs and see if importing or copy/pasting that produces better results. Google tends to remove some of the word proprietary formatting which will make it onto a confluence page when using the import function.

soelay July 17, 2024

Thanks @Kristian Klima Haven't tried with google docs and will see how.

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Harald Seyr
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July 15, 2024

Hi @soelay 

you can also check Workaround to import Word documents and split by h... - Atlassian Community

Maybe this helps a little.

Best Regards,

Harald

Kristian Klima
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July 15, 2024

Interesting and helpful. 

The general problem with word docs import is that they tend to contain a lot of garbage that one doesn't see and which can be terribly inconsistent even though the content itself looks perfectly uniformed.

I experimented a lot with word imports during our documentation migration efforts and wasted many a day trying to get anything resembling to reasonable results :) 

soelay July 17, 2024

Thanks for sharing @Harald Seyr . it looks interesting. I can follow until step 4 and lost at step 5. Do you manage to replicate all steps? 

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July 17, 2024

Hi @soelay , I just found this, but did not actutally use it myself.

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