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   Take Control of Slack Basics: Chapter 5, Go Beyond Basic Messages

   Glenn Fleishman

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Chapter 5: Go Beyond Basic Messages

   Now that you know the basics of messaging in Slack, it's time to look
   at more sophisticated options: message attachments and two special
   kinds of text you can insert via the Messages field: snippets and
   posts. In [5]Insert Snippets, I discuss how to insert structured text
   such as color-coded programming code or Markdown, and in [6]Create
   Posts, I look at posts, which are essentially documents that can be
   commented on and edited by other people.

   Finally, for those times when only a voice conversation will do, I talk
   about how to [7]Place Calls, a feature that works somewhat differently
   from Slack's usual approach.

Work with Attachments

   With its treatment of attachments, Slack moves beyond being just a
   messaging tool to also being a simple file server. By attachments, I
   mean files that any team member brings into the team, either privately
   just for themselves or more publicly in a channel or group
   conversation.

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