Import excel & PPT in Confluence

[Smitha Joseph]

How can I import excel docs & PPT to Confluence. Iam currently able to import only word docs. 

[Harald Seyr]

Hi @Smitha Joseph 

for excel, you should check if simple copy / paste is best option. Maybe using some addon like 

"Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence". (I am not associated with the vendor in any way except that I used the plugin for many years).

Also. there are similar topics in community that you could check, e.g. Solved: Import Excel into Confluence (atlassian.com)

Regards,

Harald

[Stiltsoft support]

Hi @Smitha Joseph ,

The Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence app that was kindly mentioned by @Harald Seyr is our add-on.

Its Table Spreadsheet macro indeed allows you to import your csv/xlsx files to Confluence and continue to work with them right in Confluence with all the basic Excel-like features (cell formulas, filtration, conditional formatting, etc.).

If you are not familiar with the app, please book a live call with our team.

[Smitha Joseph]

@Harald Seyr : We are trying to migrate our documents in Sharepoint to Confluence. It is as quick as snapping your fingers to import the word docs, but trying the copy paste options with the unsupported file types resulted in few contents like images not being imported correctly.

[Harald Seyr]

@Smitha Joseph : There seems to be no real "out of the box" solution for bulk import of excel to Confluence. I suggest to check two options

• if your data volume is suitable for manual upload, go the hard way and do it file by file. This also allows some quality check to only partially import selected sheets from a file or skip outdated files
• check with some consultant companies that specialize in "sharepoint to confluence" migration, those have a lot of experience and have seen different use cases

From the few migrations that I have been part of, manual migration was the better way since this does limit the vast volume of existing, but irrelevant data being imported to a new, clear system.

[Smitha Joseph]

@Harald Seyr   & @Stiltsoft support  - Thank you for your valuable inputs.

Do you we have any similar approach of PPT docs too apart from the copy & paste approach?

[Harald Seyr]

@Smitha Joseph : For PPT, my organisation keeps them as PPT and uploads them as attachments. Reason is that we use PPT only for presentations that are really presented, so we keep the "full screen display" layout. For other informations, we use plain text directly on pages in Confluence, maybe with some images.

[Kristian Klima]

Hello @Smitha Joseph 

Try the method I outlined in my recent article

Essentially, it's using the presentation's Sharepoint (or Cloud Powerpoint) Embed URL should give you a nicely embedded document. 

As for the migrating FILES to Confluence. Confluence is not designed as a file storage repository. Sure, you can add them as attachments to a page but that's hardly a file management system.

I'd argue for a hybrid approach based on 'using the best tool for the job'.

Word documents tend to be text-based, I'd upload their content to Confluence as a bona fide Confluence page. Forcing a PTT content to become a Confluence page is not exactly desirable, attaching a file to a page forces the reader to download the file. 

Embedding the presentation, Figma draft, etc. results in a much better experience AND, crucially, you'll be using the right tools for any given content type.

(For one of our projects, I worked with MS Powerpoint files imported into Google Slides, converted them to Slides, then used the trick described in the article to make them a part of the Confluence pages).