Mirror sections of page
Asked by Casey Cain:

I have tried a few different things that I thought would be the answer to my question. Such as Anchor and Excerpt. However, I'm either not using them correctly or I just don't know the proper terminology.

I have used the "Page Layout" feature to separate some lists of community members by their voting type in Confluence. However, I would like to encapsulate these multiple page sections and display them on other pages within the same space.

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Is there a simple way to do this that I am just missing?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there, [@Casey Cain](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3524699). Good to see a new face around our community. The community can always use extra collaboration!

You are ++*pretty close*++ to how to use the excerpt macro. However, there is one thing that is not accounted for in the plan. ++*A page can only contain one Excerpt Macro.*++

On the other hand, ++*a page can contain multiple Excerpt Include macros*++. Each of those pointing to different pages.

As I understand, ++*we need to include the content from Page A as a whole into Page B, C, D, E and many others as desired*++. I was able to achieve this by using tables inside my Excerpt macro in Page A and then using that table to create a division similar to what you were doing with Layouts.

**Here is what I did:**
> 1. *Create Page A*
> 2. *Insert the Excerpt Macro*
> 3. *Insert a table inside that macro*
> 4. *Insert the desired number of rows and columns to that table ![Anota??o 2019-12-09 155815.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/75668iF11C3EFA3CE3DE20/image-dimensions/515x233?v=v2 "Anota??o 2019-12-09 155815.jpg")*
> 5. *Insert content into the table*
> 6. *Publish the page*
> 7. *Go to Page B*
> 8. *Edit it*
> 9. *Insert the Excerpt Include Macro*
> 10. *Type Page A as the origin of excerpt ![Anota??o 2019-12-09 155804.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/75669iF5FEB6FEDB74D987/image-dimensions/508x230?v=v2 "Anota??o 2019-12-09 155804.jpg")*
> 11. *Publish the page*

Here we can check more detail on Tables, the Excerpt macro and the Excerpt Include macro:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\] Tables](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/tables-136463.html)**++
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\] Excerpt Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-macro-148062.html)**++
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\] Excerpt Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-include-macro-148067.html)**++

I hope this shines some light in your path, Casey! Looking forward to your reply.

comments: author: Casey Cain
body: Thanks! That worked great.


author: Diego
body: Wonderful! Come share with the community in the future, [@Casey Cain](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3524699) !


author: aab39
body: [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952)I found this information useful... however when editing the Exceprt Include Macro, it gives me the option to "remove surrounding panel". I click on Preview and it shows it the way that I want it. When I save and then publish it is still showing the surrounding panel. Can you help?


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