Tips for formatting Slack messages

You can format Slack messages in Zap workflows 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 lists: it's not possible to format bulleted lists in the same way it's done directly on Slack (using asterisks). However, you can mimic the formatting using the bullet point symbol (•) 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.

New lines

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

Note

You can enter only enter a single new line between lines of text. Two or more consecutive new lines are not supported.

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 (see below how to find the member ID), and a closing angle bracket.<@UG1234567>
• “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.
• “Here” notification (notifies active members in a specific channel): type an open angle bracket, an exclamation point (!), “here”, and a closing angle bracket.
• “User group” notification (notifies all members of a user group): type an open angle bracket, an exclamation point (!), type in “subteam” , a caret symbol (^), the user group ID (see below how to find the group ID), and a closing angle bracket.

Note

Your workspace may disable notifications or usage of @here and @everyone. Contact your Slack administrator to verify if notifications are enabled.