First, quickly review these awesome Slack shortcuts Ready? Ready! Slack Hacks For Marketing Teams 1. Use them, don’t abuse them 😉 And if you don’t know what Slack is, I was hoping you would not click on this article. To summarise these lesser known features and help you become more productive, here are the best slack hacks for marketing teams. Yes, Slack is an awesome chat tool, BUT it’s capable of more than just sending Gifs and chatting company culture. At least they can see the message online via the image.How do marketers get the most out of Slack? As a marketer myself and managing a fully-remote team, it’s our central hub for internal & external collaboration. You feel dirty and ridiculous for having to do this image hack but the alternative was manually retyping that text. Your colleague will laugh at you, but you got them the message quickly and overcame the limitations. Take a screenshot and crop to the text, and save Get to a computer that has no limitations to avoid this last resort option: You needed a snippet of text from someone else and you are resorting to a screenshot. If you can’t select, then you can’t do the Lookup Hack. You can’t make text selections unless you are in the message editor, which only comes up for your text. About 99.9% of text in Slack is in this category since it was not written by you. What an absolutely horrifying situation to be in security-wise, but it did the trick.Ĥ) Copy that text using the real clipboard and paste into the message editor where you need it.į) Fail! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) ❌ The text is from someone else’s post. We just successfully copied the text without markup and stuck it into the search engine and browser of your choice.
What are we looking at and why not down or to the side? Anyway.ģ) Choose Search Web. Wonderful.īy the way, what an awful idiom to use. You don’t have Copy but you do have Look Up, Speak, and Format. It came from the nice sentence you wrote that you want to send to someone. But we can do a workaround hack to get that text:įirst select the text. So you can’t just drag that selected text outside of the message editor.
H) Hack time! ¯(°_O)/¯ You want to paste the text into a new or different message edit. But, at least you can move those bullet points around or change order of things. It can be quite jumpy and the cursor can be hard to see at times. You will have to tap edit on past messages to bring up that editor.ĭo you want to move that text elsewhere in the same message? (Yes: P No: H) ↓ P) Punk Rock! (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ If you have been using an iPhone for a long time and mostly copy and paste, you may not know that you can hold down on that selected block and it will let you move it around. Is the text to copy from one of your existing editable messages? (Yes: G No: F) ↓ G) Good News Everyone! (╯°o°)ᕗ You can make selections in your message editor. You just want to move it somewhere else within that same walled garden, but, not with copy though! You have to find a different way. The text you want is already within the walled garden. If you can’t copy text in Slack the you can’t paste it. ಠʖ̯ಠ🙏🏻 You want to paste text from within Slack. Copy long url links that seem to go on forever with query strings containing encoded values. Start here ↓ Do you want to paste text from outside of Slack? (Yes: W No: C) ↓ W) Wizard! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ If the source is external to Slack, great, you can do that all day long. Sounds like your company has opted to disable copy.Ĭoping logic (aka choose your own solution) in 3. If you are like me, you might have noticed that both copy and paste went missing for awhile but at least paste finally was restored. Has your company lost data in a security breach and/or lost their minds worrying about potential leaks? Has your “copy to the clipboard” feature been removed by your organization?
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