The Word Document

Word Exporter builds a normal, editable Word document (.docx). You can change the text, restyle headings, update the contents and keep working on it in Word like any document you wrote yourself.

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How Confluence Content Comes Through

In Confluence	In the Word document
Headings	Word's own heading styles: Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 and so on
Bullet and numbered lists	Word lists with Word numbering
Tables	Word tables
Code blocks	Shaded paragraphs in Consolas
Images	Pictures embedded in the document
Math formulas (LaTeX and MathJax macros)	Pictures (SVG, with a PNG fallback). They are not editable equations

Because headings use Word's heading styles, they show up in Word's Navigation Pane, and changing the Heading 1 style changes every Heading 1 in the document.

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Page Trees in One Document

In One merged Word document, every page keeps its place in the page tree: child pages are nested one heading level below their parent. The table of contents follows the same structure, and page numbers are continuous across the whole document.

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Fields: Table of Contents and Page Numbers

The contents page is a real Word table of contents field (TOC), and page numbers are Word page fields. Word fills them in when it opens the file.

• Word may ask: "This document contains fields that may refer to other files. Update the fields?" Choose Yes and the contents lists your pages with their page numbers.
• After editing the document, right-click the table of contents and choose Update Field to refresh it.
• In other apps, such as Google Docs or Pages, the table of contents can look empty at first. Right-click it and update the table of contents.

See Table of Contents.

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Watermark

The template's watermark is Word's own watermark, the same one you get from Design → Watermark in Word. It sits behind the text on every page. The template sets its text, opacity and colour.

To remove it from a downloaded document, go to Design → Watermark → Remove Watermark in Word.

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Opening the File Elsewhere

The .docx opens in Microsoft Word, and in other apps that read Word files, such as Google Docs and Pages. Fields like the table of contents are filled in by the app that opens the file, so update them there if they look empty.