Summary

A Confluence administrator may wish to hide the ability for users to export a page to Word.

There are 2 areas in which a user can export a page to Word.

• • The first is via the ellipsis menu on a page:
    
  • The second is in the page information section for a page:
    

Environment

7.13.7

Solution

Hide the option from the ellipsis menu:

• We can add the following HTML to the "At the end of HEAD" section in Confluence Admin >  Custom HTML.

  <style type="text/css"> 
  #action-export-word-link{ display: none} 
  </style>

  

• The option to 'Export to Word' is now missing from the ellipsis menu:
  

Hide the option in the 'Page Information' section

• We can add another line to our custom HTML.

  <style type="text/css"> 
  #exportToMsWord{ display: none} 
  </style>

  

• Once added the link for exporting the page as Word option is no longer visible in page information: