To edit a page:

  1. Navigate to and open the page you want to change.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. Make your changes, just as you would in Microsoft Word.
  4. To clear formatting, click the More icon (More icon) and click Clear Formatting. Confluence clears all formatting in the selected paragraph. This is useful when Confluence adds unnecessary formatting tags (such as <span> tags) in the source. 
  5. To edit the source, click the Source Editor icon (<>), located in the upper right corner of the page. This is useful in the following scenarios and others: 

    When you are done editing the source, click Apply.

  6. If you intend to delete an excerpt or multi-excerpt, consider checking first where that content is in use. For instructions, refer to Finding Where Reused Content Appears
  7. Consider describing the change in a change comment for future reference:
  8. When you are done editing the page, click Save.

Also refer to the following Atlassian help page:

7.3

Create and Edit Pages