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An attachment is any file that is included with your page. Images, word documents, presentations, PDFs, multimedia and sound files are some examples of attachments. Read more about attachments in the Attachments Overview.
There are two places where you can view attachment details.
- View the attachments in a space — this will show the files/images attached to all pages in the space.
- View the attachments for a specific page.
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Viewing Attachments in a Space
To view the attachments associated with a space,
Go to the 'Space Attachments' view for the current space. To do this:
- Go to a page in the space, open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Attachments'. The 'Space Attachments' view will open.
This will display a list of all the attachments in the space. Each attachment is displayed along with its details and the page it is attached to.
- You can choose to view only files of a particular type:
- Type the last part of the file name in the 'Filter By File Extension' text field. For example, enter 'gif' to see only image files of the GIF format.
- Click 'Go'.
Screenshot 1: Space Attachment Details
Viewing Attachments on a Page
To view the attachments associated with a page,
- Go to the page.
Go to the 'Attachments' view for the page. To do this:
- Go to a page in the space, open the 'Tools' menu and select 'Attachments'. The 'Attachments' view will open.
This will display a list of all the attachments in the page along with their details. For each attachment, links are also provided to edit the attachment's details and to delete the attachment.
Screenshot 2: Page Attachment Details

In the screenshot above, A. D. Ministrator created the first version of harbour.jpg, John Smith uploaded the second version and Jane Smith added a comment (and is listed as the last modifier).
Attachment Details
The attachment views show the following fields. (The page view shows a different subset of fields from the space view.)
- Name is the name of the attached file.
- Size tells you how much space the attachment takes up. You can sort by size by clicking the column title.
- Creator is the user who attached this file. The person who uploaded each new version of a file will be acknowledged as the creator of that version. Clicking on the link takes you to their profile.
- Last modifier is the user who last modified the file. Actions that qualify as a modification include renaming, moving, adding/updating a comment or updating the content type.
- Creation Date is the date the file was attached. You can sort by date by clicking the column title.
- Last Mod. Date is the date the file was last modified. Please refer to definition of Last Modifier for a list of actions that qualify as a modification.
- Attached To (in the space view) tells you which page contains the attachment.
- Comment (in the page view) is a short description of the attachment.
- The Edit link (in the page view) lets you edit the attachment details.
- The Remove link (in the page view) lets you delete the attachment.
- The View link (in the page view) lets you view an attached Office document as described below.
Viewing Attached Office Documents
When the attachment is an Office document, you will see a 'View' link as shown in the screen snippet below.
Screenshot 3: Page attachments including Office documents with 'View' link
Click the 'View' link to view the content of the Office document within Confluence. If you have an Office application installed, you will also be able to launch your Office editor from within Confluence. See Displaying an Office Document in Confluence and Working with the Office Connector.
Attachment Information Icon
When a page you are viewing contains attachments, a small paperclip icon like this: appears next to the page byline. Clicking the paperclip will take you to the 'Attachments View', where the full list of attachments is displayed.
RELATED TOPICS
Working with Attachments
Displaying List of Attachments in a Page
Finding an Attachment
Editing Attachment Details
Deleting an Attachment
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