View & Edit Pages

This technology tutorial will assist you with the following basic viewing and page editing tasks:

    View a page

    The wiki tools menu is located in the upper right hand corner of every wiki page and provides access to the most often used features of the wiki.

    Confluence wiki main tools menu

    By wiki system default, wiki page content is automatically set up in View mode. The View mode presents visual content so that you can easily navigate through the content without including markup language. While in View mode, you cannot Edit content. You can switch from view mode to Edit mode by clicking on the Edit link in the upper right hand corner. You can always switch from other modes back to View mode from Edit mode by saving or canceling in Edit mode. Below is a list with a description of the various modes.

    Mode   Description
    VIEW   View your content.
    EDIT   The content is in Edit mode. You can edit your content using either the Wiki Markup editor or Rich Text editor.
    ADD   You will see a pull-down list of options linked to this content page.
    TOOLS   Wiki records the editing history of the page. You can find lists of editing history here.

    From the Tools menu, you can also use the Export to PDF or Export to Word links to convert the current page into a document for printing.

    Edit a Page

    To edit page content, click on the Edit tab; this switches the page content to Edit mode (see figure below).

    edit mode

    Once you are in Edit mode, you can choose to edit your content using either the Rich Text editor or Wiki Markup editor. Here we will only focus on the Rich Text editor because it is intuitive and very easy to use. If you are a experienced wiki user, you may try the Wiki Markup editor, and switch between these two editors.

    The rich text editor

    The Rich Text editor enables you to edit the content just as you would with a word processing tool. In this mode, what you see is what you've edited! Below is a list of feature descriptions.

    Options     Screenshot     Description
    Font style     wiki font style     You can edit your font style by clicking any of these options. The styles include: bold, italics, underline, strike and heading.
    Table     wiki table     You can insert or edit a table by clicking any of these options. The options include: insert a table, insert row before, insert row after, remove row, insert column before, insert column after, remove column, remove table.
    Bullet style     wiki bullet style     You can change the bullet style by clicking any of these options.
    Indent     wiki indent     You can indent the selected content by clicking these options
    Undo and redo     wiki undo     You can undo or redo your editing by click these options.
    Insert ...     wiki insert     You can insert hyperlinks, images and symbols to the edited content by clicking on these options. Among these options,
    insert/edit link insert a link

    and
    insert/edit imageinsert an image
    are the most often used features.
    Display content in full screen mode     wiki full screen     You can choose to have the content displayed in full screen mode. Just click on this icon again to go back the original mode.

    Related Topics

    Topics Description
    Confluence wiki icons Confluence Wiki uses a lot of icons; this guide provides a list of wiki icon descriptions.
    Rich Text editor: Font style This guide provides instruction on how to change font style. The font style includes bold, italic, underline, strike, and headings.
    Rich Text editor: Table This guide introduces you to creating and working with tables.
    Rich Text editor: Links This guide shows you how to insert internal and external links into content.
    Rich Text editor: Image This guide shows you how to attach or insert images into content.
    Rich Text editor: Symbols This guide shows you how to insert symbols into content.
    Wiki markup editor This guide gives you an overview on how to use Wiki markup editor.

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    View attachments

    To view attachments associated with a page, click on the link in the Tools dropdown menu

    wiki attachments

    You will be taken to the attachment page which displays a list of files attached to this page. You may attach additional files to this page using the attachment file tool. However, in order to do this, you need to go back to View mode and provide a link to the file. Here are instructions on attaching files to a page.

    View page information

    You can view page information by clicking on the Tools drop-down menu and selecting Info. Information includes change history and the hierarchy of the wiki page structure. In other words, you will see a page family listing for the current page (parent page) and its children pages. For more information, consult the instructions on working with page families.