Start a conversation in Chat

Chat holds your company's conversations: channels for a team or a topic, and direct messages to one person or a few.

Message one person or a few

1. In Chat, choose New and then New message.
2. Find the people you want to write to.
3. Write your message and press Enter. Shift + Enter starts a new line.

Writing to the same people again opens the same conversation.

Make a channel

1. Choose New and then New channel.
2. Give it a Name, and say What it's for if it helps.
3. Turn on Private if only the people you add should see it.
4. Add the People who belong in it.

A public channel can be found and joined by anyone in the company. A channel can carry an emoji in place of the #, chosen when you make it or later under Details.

Join a channel

Choose New and then Browse channels to see every public channel and join one.

Find your way around

Choose Jump to to go straight to a conversation or a person. Alt with the up and down arrows moves between unread conversations, and Mark all as read clears them all.