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• Why Confluence Cloud turns your SVG into a flat image

  Confluence Cloud flattens attached SVG files, so links and interactivity inside them stop working. Here is why it happens, what you lose, what you can do for free, and when you need an app.

• Diagrams in Confluence: draw.io, Mermaid, PlantUML or an attached SVG

  Four ways to keep diagrams in Confluence, compared honestly: who edits them, what survives, what costs money, and which one fits the diagram you actually have.

• How to get a Confluence table into Excel

  Confluence has no built-in table export. Here are the free ways that actually work, where each one breaks, and the point at which copying by hand stops being reasonable.

• How to find the Confluence pages nobody maintains any more

  Every large wiki hides hundreds of pages nobody has touched in years. Here is how to find them in Confluence Cloud with search filters and CQL, what the built-in tools cannot do, and how to run an audit that stays useful.

• How to import Word documents into Confluence Cloud

  Confluence Cloud imports .docx out of the box. Here is exactly how, what survives the trip, what breaks, and at what point a document migration stops being a copy-paste job.

• What to check before installing a Confluence app

  Where your data goes, what the Marketplace badges actually mean, how to tell an abandoned app from a quiet one, and what happens when you uninstall. A checklist for Confluence admins.

• How to list Confluence pages on a page without writing CQL

  Four built-in macros put a live list of pages on a page, and filter by label is stronger than most think. Here is where each one stops.

• How to split a Word document into multiple Confluence pages

  Confluence Cloud imports one page per .docx file, with no split by headings. The free route runs through Word's outline view. Here is what it costs.

• How to sum a column in a Confluence table

  Confluence tables have no formulas. Databases can total a column but cannot calculate per row. What actually works in Cloud, and when exporting to Excel is the honest answer.

• What a Confluence space export actually gives you

  Four formats, an admin-only button, and several things that vanish without a warning.

• Can you import a Word document into an existing Confluence page?

  Cloud always creates a new page. The four workarounds, and what paste from Word quietly breaks.

• The Confluence content manager: what it does and where it stops

  Premium only, archives 500 pages at once, and its stale-page filter silently skips every page that has children.

• How to move a Google Doc into Confluence Cloud

  The native import, where it fails, the .docx detour, and what to do with a document too long for one page.

• Confluence databases or a table on a page

  What each one is for, where each stops, and how the data comes back out.

• How to make a diagram clickable in Confluence Cloud

  Linking the boxes of a diagram: the steps in draw.io and Gliffy, and why an attached SVG loses its links.

• How to export a Confluence database to Excel

  The database exports to CSV, HTML or PDF, there is no Excel option, and the way back has a documented date trap.

• How to find orphaned pages in Confluence Cloud

  The list is in space settings under Content, and it is called Hidden, not Orphaned. What it contains and where bulk clean-up stops.

• How to get a list of Confluence pages with owners and dates

  No single report exists: the content manager needs Premium, the CSV export works on any plan but its columns are undocumented.

• Why can't someone see a Confluence page?

  Space permissions or page restrictions: which wins, why view restrictions cascade down, and where the list of restricted pages lives.

• The Live Search macro: what it does, and where it breaks

  Confluence Cloud has a Live Search macro, but it searches the space rather than the page and cannot match the middle of a word.

• How to make an image clickable in Confluence Cloud

  A whole image can be a link in two clicks. Separate clickable areas cannot be done natively, because Cloud has no HTML macro.

• How to put a Visio diagram into Confluence Cloud

  Confluence Cloud will not preview a .vsdx attachment: it downloads instead. The four routes onto the page and what each costs later.

• Why a Confluence table breaks when pasted into Excel

  Random merged cells, lost leading zeros, long IDs in scientific notation and ranges turned into dates: tested causes and fixes.

Replacing an app that is going away

Atlassian is switching off Connect apps, and several well-used Confluence apps have stopped being maintained. These cover the specific cases.

• Connect app end of life

  Atlassian is retiring the Connect platform. What the deadlines mean, how to find which of your Confluence apps are affected, and how to tell an abandoned app from one that is migrating.

• Mermaid for Confluence alternative

  Several Mermaid apps for Confluence were abandoned in 2024 and run on the retiring Connect platform. What your options are, including the free ones, and when a paid app is actually worth it.

• PlantUML for Confluence alternative

  PlantUML apps for Confluence abandoned since 2022 run on the retiring Connect platform. What your options are, including free ones, and what a Forge app reads today.

• SVG out alternative for Confluence Cloud

  SVG out for Confluence has not been updated since February 2023 and runs on the retiring Connect platform. What breaks, what your options are, and how to move your diagrams without losing links.