Using Old Rich Text Editor | What You Did Before | What to Do Now |
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Basic typing and editing | Typed your content directly into the editor window, using the toolbar buttons to insert other content. | Your experience should be much the same. Generally, the transition from using the Confluence 3.5 Rich Text Editor to the new Confluence 4.0 editor should be smooth. Try doing things the way you always did, and check the table below if you can't find the feature you're looking for. |
Adding Macros | What you did before | What to do now (press Enter to complete actions) |
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Adding a macro to your page. | Clicked 'Insert / Edit Macro'. | Type '{' and start typing the macro name to see a list of macros that match your text. Press the arrow keys to select the macro you want. Example:
You can still click 'Insert' > 'Other Macros'. |
Formatting Text | What you did before | What to do now |
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Making text bold, italic or underlined. | Selected text and clicked the respective menu button. | No change. |
Heading levels | Selected text and chose a heading level from the menu. | No change. |
Left, centre and right alignment | Not available in previous versions of Confluence. | Click the left, centre and right alignment buttons on the editor toolbar:  |
Indentation | Click the left and right indentation buttons on the editor toolbar:  | No change. Click the left and right indentation buttons on the editor toolbar:  |
Making text strikethrough, monospace, superscript or subscript | Selected text and clicked the respective menu button. | Click this button on the editor toolbar and select from the drop-down list. Example:
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Quoting text | Selected text and chose the 'Quote' style from the drop-down menu. | No change: Use the Quote style – select 'Quote' from the style dropdown menu or use the keyboard shortcut. Example:
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Colour | Selected text and chose a colour from the menu bar. | No change: Click the colour options on the editor toolbar. Example:
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Adding Symbols and Emoticons | What you did before | What to do now |
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Smiley | Clicked 'Insert' > 'Emoticon' on the toolbar.  | Type the globally-recognised markup for a smiley face (colon and round bracket), a wink (semicolon and round bracket), and so on. Autocomplete will convert it as you type. Example:
You can still click 'Insert' > 'Emoticon' on the toolbar. |
Tick or check mark | Clicked 'Insert' > 'Emoticon' > . | Type a forward slash in round brackets. Autocomplete will convert it as you type. Example:
You can still click 'Insert' > 'Emoticon' > . |
Linking text | What you did before | What to do now (press Enter to complete actions) |
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Linking to a Confluence page | Clicked 'Insert' > 'Link' on the toolbar. | Type a square bracket '[' and start typing the page name to see the suggested pages to link to. Press the arrow keys to select the page you want. Example:
You can still click 'Link' on the toolbar. |
Linking text to a web page | Selected the text and clicked 'Link' > 'Web Link' on the toolbar and typed the URL into the dialog box. } | Type a square bracket '[' and select 'Insert Web Link', then paste the URL into the link dialog. Example:
You can still use 'Link' > 'Web Link' on the toolbar. |
Linking to a page that does not yet exist | Not available in previous versions of Confluence. | Type a square bracket '[' and the name of the non-existent page, then select 'Insert Link to Create Page'. Example:
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Linking to a mailto link | Clicked 'Link' > 'Web Link' on the toolbar and typed | No change. You still click 'Link' > 'Web Link' on the toolbar and type |
Linking to an anchor on a page | Clicked 'Link' > 'Web Link' on the toolbar and typed 'DestinationPage#AnchorName'. | No change. You still click 'Link' > 'Web Link' on the toolbar and type 'DestinationPage#AnchorName'. |
Linking to an attachment | Clicked 'Link' > 'Attachment' on the toolbar. | Type a square bracket '[' and start typing the attachment name to see the suggested attachments to link to. Press the arrow keys to select the item you want. Example:
You can still click 'Link' > 'Attachment' on the toolbar. |
Using bulleted and numbered lists | What you did before | What to do now (press Enter to complete actions) |
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Adding bullets | Clicked 'Unordered List' on the toolbar. | Type an asterisk '*' followed by a space. Autoformat will convert the line to a bulleted list. You can continue typing your text immediately. Example:
To add another line of text to an entry without creating a new list item, press Shift + Enter at the end of the line. You can still click 'Bullet List' on the toolbar. |
Adding numbered items | Clicked 'Ordered List' on the toolbar. | Type a hash or pound '#' followed by a space. Autoformat will convert the line to a numbered list. You can continue typing your text immediately. Example:

To add another line of text to an entry without creating a new list item, press Shift + Enter at the end of the line. You can still click 'Numbered List' on the toolbar. |
Adding line breaks in a numbered/bulleted list | Pressed Shift+Enter. | No change. You can still press Shift+Enter. |
Using tables | What you did before | What to do now |
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Adding a table | Clicked 'Insert Table' on the toolbar. | Type a series of pipe characters '|' then press Enter. Autoformat will convert the pipes to a table. Example – to create a table with three columns:
You can still click 'Insert' > 'Table' on the toolbar. |
Editing a table | Used the table buttons on the toolbar. | No change, you can still use the toolbar table editing controls, with new features such as table merge and split. |
Displaying images | What you did before | What to do now (press Enter to complete actions) |
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Displayed an image attached to the page | Typed/pasted the image name inside exclamation marks '!'. Example: | Type an exclamation mark '!' and start typing the image name to see the suggested images to insert onto the page. Press the arrow keys to select the item you want. Example:
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Displaying an image attached to another page | Clicked 'Insert Image' > 'From the Web' and inserted the URL of the image on the other page. | Click 'Insert' > 'Search' and type search terms to find the image in Confluence. Once found, click the image and it will be added to the page. |
Embedding multimedia files | What you did before | What to do now (press Enter to complete actions) |
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Embedding a video, movie or audio file into a page | Clicked 'Insert' > 'Macro' > 'Multimedia Macro' and chose content from the browser. | Use the Multimedia macro. Type an exclamation mark '!' and select 'Insert Other Media'. Example:

Or type '{' and start typing the macro name 'Multimedia'. Example:
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