Searching Confluence content

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: PhoneBook tutorial (re-motion)
Jul 29, 2022
Page: Tutorial (Demonstration Space)
Nov 30, 2011
Page: uigen.exe (re-motion)
Jan 21, 2010
Page: dbschema.exe (re-motion)
Jan 21, 2010
Page: PhoneBook walk-through (re-motion)
Jan 21, 2010
Page: Home (Demonstration Space)
Jul 24, 2019

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