Re: Optimizing Word docs for import to Confluence

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

Just thought of one other thing. I don't think Confluence preserves
note, info, tip, or warning paragraph formats on import, but there are
macros you can apply afterwards.

There's also a Code Block macro that sometimes gives better results than <pre>.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Cool. Thanks again.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Right, the styles that are available in the Confluence editor menus.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>> > Thanks, Robert. By "supported styles" I assume you mean the default
>> > styles
>> > in Confluence, i.e. H1, H2, etc?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Robert Lauriston
>> > <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Confluence recognizes only the default Word heading style names, so
>> >> reformat as necessary.
>> >>
>> >> If I had a lot of docs to import, I'd probably create a Confluence
>> >> page with examples of all the supported styles, export that to Word,
>> >> import it to another page, and make sure that everything comes in as
>> >> expected. Then I'd use that Word doc as a guide for reformatting the
>> >> legacy docs.
>
>
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