Tips for Formatting Slack Messages

You can format Slack messages in Zaps to add styling, user mentions, and channel and workspace notifications.

Text

• Bold text: wrap your text with asterisks (*).
  *bold*
• Italic text: wrap your text with underscores (_).
  _italic_
• Strikethrough text: wrap your text with tildes (~).
  ~strikethrough~

Inline code and blockquotes

• Inline code blocks that are a single word or line: wrap your text with a single backtick (`).
  inline code block
• For inline code blocks that are a block of text: wrap your text with three backticks.
  inline code block text block
• For blockquotes: start the blockquote with a closing angle bracket (>).
  >blockquote

Lists

• Ordered lists: type the number, a period (.), and a space before your text.
  1. ordered list
• Bulleted list: type an asterisk and a space before your text.
  * bulleted list

Links

URL links are automatically hyperlinked in Slack without additional formatting.

To display link text instead of the URL:

• Type an open angle bracket (<), your URL link, a pipe character (|), your link text, and a closing angle bracket.
  <https://zapier.com|Link text>

New lines

No special formatting is required. To add a new line, use the return (enter) key on your keyboard.

Emoji

• Wrap the name of the emoji in colons (:).
  :heart_eyes:

Mentions and notifications

• User mentions: type an open angle bracket, the at symbol (@), the user’s Slack member ID, and a closing angle bracket.
  <@UG123457>
• “Everyone” notification (notifies everyone in your workspace in the #general channel): type an open angle bracket, an exclamation point (!), “everyone”, and a closing angle bracket.
  <!everyone>
• “Here” notification (notifies active members in a specific channel): type an open angle bracket, an exclamation point (!), “here”, and a closing angle bracket.
  <!here>