Getting Started

Export Confluence pages to editable Word documents in just a few steps.

Overview

Word Exporter for Confluence turns any Confluence page, page tree or whole space into a Word document (.docx) you can keep editing. Pick a template, and the export gets your cover page, headers, footers, watermark and table of contents. Headings use Word's own heading styles, and lists and tables stay real Word lists and tables.

An exported Confluence page open in Word, with its Word styles labelled: Heading 2, Heading 3, Table, Numbered list and Code

What You Can Do

Feature	What it does
Export pages and spaces	Export one page, a page and everything under it, or a whole space
One merged document or a ZIP	One Word document with a shared table of contents and continuous page numbers, or a separate Word file for each page
An editable Word document	Word heading styles, a Word table of contents, Word lists, tables and page numbers
Templates	Reusable styles for page setup, fonts, headers, footers and watermarks
Cover designer	Ready-made cover designs, or drag the title, logo, images and text anywhere on the cover
Background exports and My exports	Large exports run in the background inside Atlassian while you do something else, and wait for you in My exports
Scheduled exports	Export a space or page tree every week or month, attach each file to an archive page and email people
REST API	Start exports from scripts and CI/CD pipelines with an API token

Prerequisites

Atlassian Confluence Cloud instance
Word Exporter for Confluence installed on your site
View permission on the pages you want to export

Step 1: Install the App

Word Exporter for Confluence is coming soon to the Atlassian Marketplace. See the Installation Guide for how to install it once it's available.

Step 2: Open the Exporter

To export the page you're on, click Export to Word under the page title. A page without child pages opens a dialog with a preview of the document; a page with children opens the full exporter.

To export several pages, a page tree or a space:

Open any Confluence page
Click the ··· (More actions) menu in the top-right toolbar
Select Apps → Word Exporter for Confluence

You can also open the full exporter from Apps → Word Exporter for Confluence in the Confluence sidebar. That's also where you find My exports and Schedules.

Step 3: Select Pages

Use the hierarchical page tree to select the pages you want to export:

Check a single page to export just that page
Check a parent page to include it and all its children
Use the search bar to quickly find pages across the space

Step 4: Choose a Template

Select a template from the sidebar dropdown. Templates define the look of your Word document: font size, header and footer, cover page, watermark and more.

Three default templates are available out of the box:

Template	Description
Default	Clean Word document with page numbers, no cover page
Report	Cover page, table of contents, page breaks before sections
Minimal	No header, footer, or page numbers, just content

Admins can create additional custom templates. See Template Management.

Step 5: Export

Click Export to Word. For multi-page exports, choose One merged Word document for a single file or Separate Word files (ZIP) for one file per page.

Small exports are built in your browser and download straight away. Large ones are built in the background inside Atlassian: a Preparing Export card appears while the app checks the pages and your access, then a progress card follows the export. You can close the page and download the file later from My exports. See Background Exports & My Exports.

Step 6: Open the File in Word

The table of contents and page numbers are Word fields, which Word fills in when it opens the document. If Word asks "This document contains fields that may refer to other files. Update the fields?", choose Yes. See Table of Contents.