Loading...

XML

Word

Printable

Details

Type: Suggestion
Resolution: Unresolved
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Page - Export / Import
Labels:
- export
- mt
- pages&blogs
- sc
- word_export

UIS:
6
Support reference count:
34
Feedback Policy:

We collect Confluence feedback from various sources, and we evaluate what we've collected when planning our product roadmap. To understand how this piece of feedback will be reviewed, see our Implementation of New Features Policy.

Description

NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

Exported a page to Word, and this is at the top of the resulting HTML file (when opened in a text editor):

Message-ID: <117338914.3.1343020657541.JavaMail.atlassian@Atlassians-MacBook-Air.local>
Subject: Exported From Confluence
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; 
	boundary="----=_Part_2_792693002.1343020657520"

------=_Part_2_792693002.1343020657520
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Location: file:///C:/exported.html

The file is not a valid Word document, in fact it rather seems to be a .eml or .mht file. It is basically coincidental that Microsoft Word can open the file. A major problem with even this is that *file:///C:/* prefix is added to each content element (images, etc), regardless to the operating system/browser that you use it for export. This path is not even valid on most Windows machines for such exports.

Workaround

A work around exists - export the page as a PDF, and convert the PDF to Microsoft Word Format:

Export the page to PDF. Once you do this, you can follow this documentation to convert it to .doc.
Use this PDF to Word Doc Converter.

Attachments

- Sort By Name
- Sort By Date
- Ascending
- Descending
- Thumbnails
- List

Image+test-1.doc
1.10 MB
23/Jul/2012 5:47 AM

Issue Links

blocks

CONFSERVER-39181 Support OpenOffice 4.x

Gathering Interest

is duplicated by

CONFCLOUD-53676 Word exports in Confluence Cloud cannot open in LibreOffice

Closed

CONFSERVER-31312 MS Word export of Requirements page did not produce readable result

Closed

CONFSERVER-31713 Export page to word no longer open in OpenOffice

Closed

is related to

CONFSERVER-34211 If a page with big number of images Exported to Word, some images are invisible

Closed

CONFSERVER-25332 Export to Word rendered content incorrectly in Confluence 4.2 and 4.3 in Libre Office / Open Office

Closed

CONFSERVER-25595 Additional email headers lookalike in exported Word doc when viewing in a text editor

Closed

CONFSERVER-26227 Word-Export does not include images from included pages

Closed

relates to

CONFSERVER-38237 "Export to Word" results in '.doc' files which cannot be opened by iOS, Preview or Pages

Long Term Backlog

CONFCLOUD-26113 Export Page to Word should support Office, Open Office and Google Docs

Gathering Interest

Testing discovered

CONFSERVER-26023 image with wrong aspected ratio in word-file export

Closed

mentioned in: Page Loading...; Page Loading...; Page Loading...; Page Loading...; Page Loading...; Wiki Page Loading...; Wiki Page Loading...; Wiki Page Loading...; Page Loading...

(3 is related to, 2 relates to, 1 Testing discovered, 9 mentioned in)

Activity

People

Assignee:: Unassigned

Reporter:: Denise Unterwurzacher [Atlassian] (Inactive)

Votes:: 194 Vote for this issue

Watchers:: 124 Start watching this issue

Dates

Created:: 23/Jul/2012 5:47 AM

Updated:: 22/Sep/2023 2:04 AM