Table in Confluence 'disappears' when attempting to edit page

[Craig Payne]

We have a page that was created roughly a year ago.  It has a table of internal policies with brief descriptions and links (within Confluence) to them.  Recently I tried to update this page, and when I do there is no indication whatsoever that the table even exists once the page comes up for editing.  When I contacted the page owner (who was also its creator) she sees the same problem.

Short of trying to re-enter all this data on a new page, is there anything we can do?

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Hi @Craig Payne 

You could look at the previous version of the page via Page History, and see if the table is rendering correctly there.

I suspect it has something to do with both the new and older page editors and changes made over time to tables in the Cloud.  You may have to recreate the table in the new editor by copying the contents from a previous version of the page.

[Craig Payne]

In Page History, they all view correctly - and the page currently views correctly.  It's when I go to try to modify the page that things 'disappear' - or are you suggesting I go back to a previous version and try to edit that older version?

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Not if it currently displays correctly.

I do think you will need to recreate the table the next time you edit the page.  I'd suggest having it open in two tabs so you can cut and paste between them.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Craig Payne You might also want to create a copy of the page before doing the updates. It never hurts to have a backup.