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How do I invite all team members to a new Slack channel
Found a more straightforward solution. No script, no extensions:
Type the /who command on a channel where you have the (most) people you want to add.
Copy the output
Paste it in the channel where ...
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How to display 24-hour format time in Slack?
From Slack support:
Click your team name to open the Team Menu.
Choose Preferences.
Select the Messages & Media tab.
Check out the Message Theme and Display Options settings.
You can adjust ...
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How do I escape formatting characters in Slack?
For the current WYSIWYG editor, hit Ctrl+Z immediately after conversion happened. For example:
abc *def* ghi
will result in
abc def ghi
On the other hand,
abc *def*<CTRL+Z> ghi
will ...
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How do I invite all team members to a new Slack channel
Since @Abram solution stopped working I played a little bit. This one works partially for me now, you might need to run it a couple times though
His instructions: Just browse to the appropriate ...
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What is the difference between starring and pinning in Slack?
According to slack:
Stars are a way to mark an item in Slack as important. You can star
channels or direct messages to move them to the top of your left
sidebar, or star messages so you can ...
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How do I escape formatting characters in Slack?
Solution
Copy and paste the text below and change the word in the asterisks for your own needs:
*bold*
It will not be rendered as bold text when you post your Slack message. Note: There are hidden ...
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Why does Slack limit the number of contacts in my sidebar's direct messages section?
--Update. On desktop, you can STAR a message by right clicking the conversation and clicking "Star conversation". On mobile, open the conversation, and then tap the "View Details" ...
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How to search in a single channel?
Found the answer in the Slack docs.
The solution is to add the text in:someChannel or in:someUser to your search query.
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How do I find out who is a Slack Team Administrator?
Go to https://TEAM.slack.com/account/workspace-settings
Or via the UI:
Go to your team's Slack webpage (i.e. https://TEAM.slack.com)
You can get there by tapping the dropdown arrow then choosing ...
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How can I view all the messages I posted in a Slack channel?
This seems to do the trick:
from:me in:#random
... to list all messages I've posted in #random
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In Slack, is there a way to filter out search results from a specific channel?
The search feature allows you to exclude words from the result by putting a minus sign in front of a word.
Examples:
hot -potato
will only return messages containing hot, but not potato.
To ...
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Permanently disable previews in Slack
On the browser view, click on the drop down menu next to your team's name on Preferences. Then click on Messages and media on the left-hand side. Then, under the section Inline Media & Links you ...
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Is it possible to view the "read status" of a message in Slack?
Unfortunately there is no read receipt feature, although it is on their dev backlog according to this Tweet thread.
There isn't much you can do outside of asking if they saw it. Some other ...
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How do I escape formatting characters in Slack?
I just tested and a single back-tick will escape upcoming formatting characters for the rest of the message.
`*I don't want this to be bold*`
That will be formatted as code
`*I don't want this to ...
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How to restrict who can post on a channel in Slack?
You can restrict who can post to the #general channel on your team settings, in http://my.slack.com/admin/settings#permissions
Available restrictive options are Team Owners and Admins or Team Owners ...
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How to remove Slack User Permanently
On Year 2017
This answer is provided by Slack itself, Admins or even Owner can't delete the users permanently because of this reason:
Update: 2022
According to Slack, the profile information of the ...
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How can I view most recent Slack activity?
To view all posting in chronological order, you can do a search for something like on:today and sort the results by Most recent.
If you want to get back to a previous channel you were viewing, the ...
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Does Slack have threaded chat or "respond to x" functionality?
It seems it's on their todo list:
Threaded messages are on our to-do list! 📋
an update from 8th june:
It's been taking awhile but it'll happen 👌
another from january 2016:
we're working ...
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How to silence Slack's default slackbot?
It looks like you can't disable Slackbot for all channels, according to Slack support.
But you can at least disable the channel suggestions by selecting the option of "No, Turn Them Off" under these ...
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I mistakenly closed a direct message window on Slack, and I don't know with whom it was. How can I re-open it?
Click on "Direct Messages" to bring up a list of recent conversations:
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How do I escape formatting characters in Slack?
UPDATE!: (2017-12-07)
It seems Google has updated the Chrome web browser controls (and possibly others) to show placeholders for many common ASCII control characters, INCLUDING the Vertical Tab ...
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How to export Slack conversation thread without admin account
You can also use this project to export your slack conversations without having an admin account or having to add a Slack application.
The latest version can understand slack URL links (i.e. Copy Link ...
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How do I invite all team members to a new Slack channel
If there are more than 100 members to be invited.
Use Channel Tools app.
Channel Tools helps you bulk invite all members from one Slack channel
to another
If you have been wondering how to invite all ...
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Can an owner/admin on a free Slack view private channels?
According to @SlackHQ (the official Slack twitter account), "owners can only see the private channels that they are a member of".
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Send an email if someone posts a message into a Slack channel
I solved this by using Slack's WebHook integration and let it call a little PHP script I wrote. The script takes the information and mails it.
The script is really simple and it's on GitHub.
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Can a Slackbot create emoji?
There's an undocumented API endpoint for this: emoji.add (and its little buddy emoji.remove).
emoji.add POST parameters
token (either in POST body or Authorization: Bearer header) (There's an open ...
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Why does Slack limit the number of contacts in my sidebar's direct messages section?
You can "Star" direct messages and or Channels.
In the Direct messages to Person-A type "/star " and Slack will create a new heading group called "Starred" (if it doesn't already exist), and place the ...
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