About editing files

You can edit spreadsheets, documents, and presentations on pages where you attach Office files without downloading to edit and re-uploading multiple copies or locking other people out while editing the document.

Editing a Microsoft Office or OpenOffice Document

You can edit Office files attached to your pages by clicking the “Edit” button (also available in the full-screen preview).

A new tab opens, where the appropriate editor opens, and you can edit your document in a few seconds.

When editing a Microsoft Office document, spreadsheet, or presentation, you and your team can work together, as the Microsoft 365 editor supports real-time collaboration, so there are no file lockdowns. There's also an autosave feature, so you can close the tab when you finish.

Open Office documents work the same way as Microsoft Office documents, using the Microsoft 365 editor, but do not support real-time collaboration.

Real-time collaboration

As mentioned before, Microsoft Office Documents support real-time collaboration, and it's effortless to use.

Start editing a document that is attached to an issue or even from the file manager. When another person clicks to edit the same document, the editor creates a collaboration session seamlessly. You can continue to edit the document as before and leave it anytime by closing the browser tab.

Supported

file formats for edit

• DocumentsMicrosoft Office documents: DOC, DOCM, DOCX, DOTMDOCM, DOTX, ODTSpreadsheets: XLSXLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSXXLSB, XLTMPPT, XLTXPPTX, ODSPresentations: PPT, POTM, POTX, PPSM, PPSX, PPTM, PPTX, ODPand PPSX

• Microsoft Office templates: DOT, DOTX, DOTM, POT, POTX, and POTM

• Open Office documents: ODT, ODS, and ODP

• Google documents, sheets, and slides

Permissions

To be able to edit attachments, please check if you have the right permissions defined on Confluence. You’ll need to be able to edit the page.

Wrap up 

That's all for editing files attached to your pages.

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