Confluence can search content including pages, blog posts, emails, Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, PDF documents, and more.

As well as using the search box at the top right of every Confluence page for ad hoc searches, you can use the 'Search' macro to embed particular search results in a particular page.

E.g. you could use the following code to find content that contains the word 'tutorial': 

{search:tutorial}

... giving this:

Found 10 search result(s).

Page: Tutorial (Demonstration Space)
Feb 27, 2009
Page: Phylonet Tutorial (SSB 2020) (Phylonet)
Jan 03, 2020
Page: HC Tutorial (Habanero)
Jul 02, 2012
PDF File CreatingDigitalIllustrations_Tutorial_I.pdf (DMC Guides > )
PDF Document - 1.72 MB - Mar 31, 2023 - Download - Attachments
PDF File CreatingDigitalIllustrations_Tutorial_I.pdf (DMC Guides > )
PDF Document - 1.72 MB - Apr 01, 2023 - Download - Attachments
PDF File CreatingDigitalIllustrations_Tutorial_I.pdf (DMC Guides > )
PDF Document - 1.72 MB - Jan 17, 2023 - Download - Attachments
PDF File CreatingDigitalIllustrations_Tutorial_I.pdf (DMC Guides > )
PDF Document - 1.72 MB - Jan 17, 2023 - Download - Attachments
PDF File CreatingDigitalIllustrations_Tutorial_I.pdf (DMC Guides > )
PDF Document - 1.72 MB - Jan 18, 2023 - Download - Attachments

The Confluence search engine is based on Lucene. It begins working as soon as you install Confluence and can build search indices on a wide range of document types: blogs, pages, comments, attachments, etc.

For more information about performing a search on your Confluence content, please see the documentation

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