Using Wiki Markup Characters on a Page

When you are editing a wiki page, Confluence responds to some characters with autoformatting, as described in the following Atlassian help page:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf613/keyboard-shortcuts-964960192.html

However, you can also use those characters without autoformatting. 

1. Type the character, such as an asterisk (*), or pair of characters, such as brackets ([]). Confluence responds with autoformatting.
2. Press Ctrl+Z. Confluence cancels the autoformatting, leaving behind only what you have typed.
3. Continue entering your text. 

For example, we entered the following in this way:

[This is not a  link.]