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When viewing a wiki page that displays an attached Office document, you can launch your Office editor directly from Confluence. This allows you to edit a PowerPoint presentation from within Confluence and save it back to Confluence.
This is just one of the ways Confluence can interact with Office documents. For an overview of all Office Connector features, please refer to Working with the Office Connector.
Your System Administrator can enable or disable the Office Connector or parts of it. The Office Connector options can appear in different places on your Confluence page, depending on the themes and configuration of your Confluence site. Please refer to Configuring the Office Connector in the Confluence Administration Guide and discuss any configuration problems with your administrator.
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Prerequisites for Editing an Attached Office Presentation
The Office Connector allows you to edit Office documents embedded in a wiki page or to edit a wiki page in Word. To make use of these editing capabilities, you will need the setup described below.
Browsers
Editors
To edit documents, you will need to have Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or NeoOffice installed. (See the configuration matrix below.)
- If you are using Firefox, you can choose which of the above editors you want to use. The Firefox add-on allows you to configure this option for each document type. See Installing the Firefox Add-On for the Office Connector.
- If you are using Internet Explorer, you will need Microsoft Office. You cannot edit documents in OpenOffice when using IE.
Configuration Matrix
You need one of the following software combinations to edit Office documents from your wiki page:
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- Windows Vista, or
- Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3
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- OpenOffice 2.x, or
- Microsoft Office XP, 2003 or 2007 (all documents must be in Microsoft Office 97-2003 compatible format)
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- Internet Explorer 6 or 7, or
- Firefox 2.x or 3.0
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- OpenOffice 2.x
The only known supported Office editor for Linux is OpenOffice. But in theory it should work with any WebDAV-aware application.
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Step 1. View the Office Presentation in Confluence
If an Office document is attached to a Confluence page, you can view the attached Office document from within Confluence. View the Office document in one of the following ways:
- Search for the Office document by file name, then click the 'View' link next to the Office document on the Search results page. (See Searching Confluence.)
- View the list of attachments for a specific Confluence page, then click the 'View' link next to the Office document on the Attachments page. (See Viewing Attachment Details.)
- View a list of attachments displayed on a page via the Attachments macro, then click the 'View' link next to the Office document in the list of attachments. (See Displaying List of Attachments in a Page.)
- View a Confluence page which has the Office document embedded in the page via the View File macro. (See View File Macro.)
Step 2. Open the Presentation in your Office Application
To edit the presentation in your Office application,
- Click the 'Edit' icon
on the bottom frame of the slide show.
_Screenshot: PowerPoint presentation displayed on a Confluence page _
- A window will pop up, asking you to confirm that you want to open this document.
Screenshot: Confirmation window in Firefox
Screenshot: Confirmation window in Internet Explorer
- Click 'OK'. Now you may be asked to log in to your Confluence server.
Screenshot: Logging in to Confluence
- Enter your Confluence username and password, then click 'OK'.
- The presentation will open in your Office application.
- Make the necessary changes, then save the presentation. It will be saved back into Confluence.
Troubleshooting
Problems? Please refer to our guide to the Office Connector limitations and known issues.
RELATED TOPICS
Working with the Office Connector
Configuring the Office Connector in the Confluence Administration Guide
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