We use these file display macros a lot, especially for Excel.

would be a big regression for us, if they are disabled

Why can't we have both?

Also, I agree that the ability to select a single Excel worksheet to display absolutely needs to be fixed. We have pages that automatically update based on a Excel file's worksheets and those pages have now been left useless.

Don't take away the most useful tool in my toolbox, please.

Also, please fix the ability to select worksheet, and column/row ranges - these were the "magic in the wand", and their loss has hobbled some (a lot) of the usefulness of this tool.

No excuses, please, just put it back the way it was.

Perhaps we need a feature request named "Do Not remove the view file macros". I 100% agree that the current replacement is not adequate, especially for Excel files.

Please do not remove this feature

We extensively use the viewfile macro with confluence. It'll be very disappointing to see this feature removed/unsupported. 

Just adding one more to the list.  I too beleive the ViewFile macro is really more useful for Excel at least.  Please do not remove this feature!

@Sophia Yip, you can actually use "Edit in Office" from within the View File function. But I agree it's still much more of a hassle this way, I want to be able to directly Edit in Office from within the page.

I'm disappointed to see the excel macro function being removed.  This is one of my favorite and we have quite a few of these being used on our confluence page.  It's more convenient to use this macro to update excel file rather than using the View File function where you need to download the file somewhere, then make changes, save and upload a new version.

Please bring it back!

Just started using Confluence over the last couple of months at a new job (I'm historically a SharePoint or WIKI type user) and have now created a fair amount of pages/content utilizing the Office Excel macro in particular for dashboard publishing purposes. I only discovered today that these Office view file macros are to be deprecated.  Having found this ticket thread in my search for some answers or an explanation I figured I should create an Atlassian account and do my part to pile on my objections to this plan as well.