Tables

Confluence tables allow you to present important information and discuss it with your team. Use familiar table formatting options –resizing columns, coloring cells, rows and columns, and sorting the table by clicking the column headers – to view the information the way you like it.

Using Confluence Cloud? Check out our info on the new Confluence Cloud editor if your table looks like this one.

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Insert a table

To create a table:

1. Hit the Table button in the toolbar
2. Click a cell in the drop-down to set the number of columns and rows in your table

On this page:

Related pages:

• Page Layouts, Columns and Sections
• The Editor

Edit your table

To resize table columns, just click and drag the column's border. To make other changes to your table, click inside it to reveal the table toolbar.

Here's a summary of the table tools:

Column width modes

• Responsive – choose this mode if you want the table to expand as you add content. You can drag to resize the columns. It'll also resize itself to fit the page-viewer's window size (within reason).
• Fixed width – choose this mode if you want to drag column borders to set width. Columns appear at your set size, regardless of content and window size.

Rows

• Insert rows before or after the current row
• Delete the current row
• Cut, copy and paste the current row
• Mark a row as a header row (shaded with bold text)

Columns

• Insert columns before or after the current column
• Delete the current column
• Cut, copy and paste the current column
• Mark a column as a header column (shaded with bold text)
• Add a numbering column to automatically number each row

Cells

• Merge selected cells
• Split selected cells
• Change cell color

Table

Shortcut keys

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For more editor keyboard shortcuts, see Keyboard shortcuts.

Sort the table in view mode

When viewing a table on a page, you can sort it by clicking the sort icons in the header row.

Screenshot: A colorful, sortable table

The default sort order is the order the table rows are listed in the editor. You can use the Cut row and Paste row icons to move rows around in the editor.

Sticky table headers in view mode

In some instances the header rows of your table will stick to the top when you're scrolling down a page, making those really long tables easier to read.

You don't need to do anything to enable sticky table headers, however there are a lot of situations where headers won't stick. These include when your table:

• Is inside a page layout, inside another table, or inside a macro.
• Has no header row or there are cells in the top row that aren't marked as headers.
• Has a header column, instead of a header row, and scrolls horizontally.
• Contains another table, that has its own header row.

There's no way to freeze rows or columns in Confluence tables.

See CONFSERVER-54343 - Getting issue details. STATUS for issues with sticky table headers.