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Editing a
Page
The Editor
The Confluence
editor is what you'll use to create and edit pages, blog posts, and comments.
You can enter content as you would in a Word document, apply formatting, and
embed other content and files on the page.
Edit a page
or blog post
You'll be taken
to the editor whenever you create a new page or blog post, or add a comment. To edit an
existing page or blog post, choose Edit at the top of a page or press E on your
keyboard.
Confluence
automatically saves drafts of your page as
you work. If another user begins editing the same page as you, Confluence will
display a message and will try to merge the changes when you save
your page. To see changes between different versions of the page, look at the historyof the page.
The editor
The editor
allows you to enter or change the title of your page; insert content including
text, images, and links; and format your content using the toolbar.
If you're
renaming your page, there are some things you should take into account.
Editor toolbar
The editor
toolbar is where you format your page layout and text, and
add links, tables, images, attachments and macros. You can also
perform a find and replace, or get help
using the editor by choosing the help icon 
.
Screenshot: The editor toolbar
The Insert menu
The Insert menu
is particularly useful. Use the Insert menu to include any of the following
content types on your page:
· A macro (choose a specific macro,
or Other Macros, from the Insert menu)
You can also use
keyboard shortcuts to insert links, images, and macros. Try out the shortcuts
listed below:
· Type [ (square bracket) to insert a link.
· Type ! (exclamation mark) to insert an image or other media.
· Type { (curly bracket) to insert a macro.
Typing any of
the above shortcuts will trigger the autocomplete functionality, prompting you
with a list of suggestions to finish off the entry. For more shortcuts, click
the help icon on the editor toolbar.
Restrictions,
labels, and notifications
When editing a
page, you may want to set restrictions on who can view
or edit the page, or add labels to the page to
make it easily searchable.
Once you're
ready to save, you can enter change comments to let others
know what you've changed, and, if you like, send an email notification to anyone watching the page.
Things to help
you work faster
Auto-formatting
You can type Confluence wiki markup directly
into the editor to have Confluence auto-format your text as you type. To learn
more, choose help icon 
in the toolbar, then choose Editor Autoformatting.
Autoconvert for
pasted links
When you paste
certain URLs into Confluence, the editor will analyze what you're pasting and
automatically convert it into something that will display well in Confluence.
Examples include:
· YouTube videos
· JIRA issue queries
· Google Maps
· Confluence pages, blog posts, comments, user statuses, user
profiles.
· Shared screenshot links from Skitch
· And more.
Drag-and-drop
for external images and files
You can drag
files, like images, multimedia, Office files and PDFs, from your computer and
drop them directly into the editor. The contents of the file will be embedded
into the page or blog post.
Drag-and-drop
within the editor
In the editor
panel, you can drag an image or a macro from one location to another on the
page. Hover your cursor over the image or the macro placeholder and your cursor
changes to a drag-and-drop icon . Click the image or macro and drag it to a
new location.
Note: For the
drag-and-drop of images and macros in the editor, Confluence supports the
following browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 10 (desktop mode).
Keyboard
shortcuts
To view the
available keyboard shortcuts, choose the
help icon 
in the editor
toolbar.
Find and replace
text
Click the 
icon on the
toolbar, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac OS).
Search matches
are highlighted in yellow. You can step through the results one by one, replace
the matching text strings one by one, or replace all matching strings at once.
Find and replace works only within the current page.
Record change
comments and notify watchers
When you finish
editing a page, you can add a comment to let others know what you changed. Type
a short message in the change comments field in the footer. The comment will be
visible in the page history.
If you want to
send a notification to people watching the page, select Notify
watchers. The change comment will be included in the notification email. The
Notify watchers checkbox remembers your last selection, so if you choose not to
notify people, the checkbox will be deselected for you next time.