Popular messaging and collaboration app Slack offers a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) method for formatting your messages, making it easy to add bold, italics, and other features to the text you type. It’s great for adding emphasis to a word, but you can also use it to add links or snippets of code. Slack also offers a form of Markdown formatting that lets you perform more complex customizations using one of the oldest methods of text formatting on the web, but it can be a bit trickier to learn.
How to format your messages in Slack
Not sure where to start when it comes to adding formatting to your messages, or just want to learn more? Here’s how to use the WYSIWYG editor and markdown formatting in Slack.
Using the Slack WYSIWYG editor is one of the easiest ways to add formatting to your messages. It’s now considered the standard form of Slack message formatting, and is a great starting point. Here’s how to format messages in Slack using the visual editor.
Open your Slack workspace.
