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Table Excerpt / Table Excerpt Include

Simple Tables can work with tables that are managed through Table Excerpt and reused with Table Excerpt Include in Confluence. This lets teams keep reusable content patterns while still enabling interactive table behavior for readers with Simple Table.

Important limitation

Table Excerpt workflows are supported with the standard Simple Table macro. At the moment, they are not supported with Simple Table with Body because Confluence Cloud does not currently allow this kind of macro nesting reliably when the macro contains a table inside its body.

Typical setup

  1. Create and maintain the source table in a Confluence page using your Table Excerpt workflow.
  2. Reuse that table in other pages with Table Excerpt Include.
  3. Use the standard Simple Table macro with the rendered table data.
  4. Publish the page and use Simple Tables features such as sorting, filtering, and aggregations on the rendered table.

Supported macro setups

  • Simple Table: supported for Table Excerpt / Table Excerpt Include workflows.
  • Simple Table with Body: not currently supported for this workflow because it requires a Confluence table inside the macro body.
  • The recommended approach is to use Simple Table when you need reusable table content from a Table Excerpt setup.

Why this is useful

  • Reusable content: maintain a source table once and distribute it across multiple pages.
  • Better reader experience: add search, sorting, and formatting without duplicating the data.
  • Confluence-native workflow: keep editorial ownership in Confluence instead of moving data into another system.
  • Lower adoption friction: customers can keep established Table Excerpt-based page structures.

Customer-facing message

If your team already relies on Table Excerpt / Table Excerpt Include to reuse tables across Confluence, Simple Tables fits that workflow. Use the standard Simple Table macro to preserve the existing authoring pattern and add interactive table capabilities on top of the rendered result.

For native tables in general, see Native Confluence tables.

Want to try it in your site? InstallSimple Tables for Confluence from the Atlassian Marketplace.