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Subject:Re: Optimizing Word docs for import to Confluence From:Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> Date:Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:01:28 -0800
Cool. Thanks again.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:
> Right, the styles that are available in the Confluence editor menus.
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > Thanks, Robert. By "supported styles" I assume you mean the default
> styles
> > in Confluence, i.e. H1, H2, etc?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Confluence recognizes only the default Word heading style names, so
> >> reformat as necessary.
> >>
> >> If I had a lot of docs to import, I'd probably create a Confluence
> >> page with examples of all the supported styles, export that to Word,
> >> import it to another page, and make sure that everything comes in as
> >> expected. Then I'd use that Word doc as a guide for reformatting the
> >> legacy docs.
>
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