3 Ways to Use the New Status Macro in Confluence

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian's tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. The saying "big things come in small packages" is the perfect way to describe the status macro – a little color lozenge that makes it easy to track the status of project milestones, new feature work, or the status of drafted work. We've made three simple, yet powerful improvements to the status macro: New

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University 2.0 – Better, Faster, Stronger

We just released the University lessons for Confluence 5.0, and are debuting a brand new lesson type.  Still giving you the same great training and experience, the lessons are now significantly faster.  We have revamped our look to make it a bit easier on the eyes. Additionally, the training is not done in a shared environment like previous versions. This is the simplest, easiest-to-use training yet!   See the New University Lessons  

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3 Killer Features for Creating Awesome Page Templates in Confluence

One of the biggest time-saving tactics you can employ in your workplace is creating standardized content. Teams waste so much time every day creating documents from scratch or mindlessly scanning unstructured pages for the information they need. It's time to stop reinventing the wheel. Here are three awesome features to use when creating page templates in Confluence that will help your team get more work done, faster. 1. Guide your fellow users with Instructional Text Creating content from

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Confluence 5 was just the beginning….

Confluence 5 was "the biggest interface overhaul in Atlassian’s history" and the culmination of a lot of hard work. Not only is the new interface easy on the eyes, it also makes creating content dead simple. At Atlassian we believe that teams are brought together by content - project plans, product requirements, meeting notes, policies and procedures, anything - which make up the 'work' at work. Content is the new platform That's why, since we launched Confluence 4 more than a year ago, we've

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4 Things to Try with the Space Sidebar in Confluence 5

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian's tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Confluence 5 is officially out the door and so far it's living up to the hype. Our main goal for the new release was to bring clarity to every screen in Confluence. We wanted to give 'spaces' special attention, since that's where all your content lives. Too often we would get these questions from new users navigating

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