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#  Tip of the Week: Keyboard Shortcuts for Slack

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  Wednesday, 19 June 2019

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Collaboration is crucial in today’s work environment, which is one reason that solutions like Slack are so popular among businesses. Another reason that Slack is a popular option is how user-friendly it is - especially with the many shortcuts that are built in. We’ll go over a few of these shortcuts.

## Navigating Slack

Open direct messages menu - **Ctrl +Shift + K**
 Browse all channels - **Ctrl + Shift + L**
Previous (unread) channel or direct message - **Alt (+ Shift) + Up Arrow**
 Next (unread) channel or direct message - **Alt (+ Shift) + Down Arrow**
 Access the Quick Switcher - **Ctrl + K**
 Switch to previous workspace -  **Ctrl + Shift + Tab**
 Switch to the next workspace - **Ctrl + Tab**
 Return to the previous channel - **Alt + Left Arrow**

## Marking Up Your Messages

Mark all messages in current channel or direct message as read - **Esc**
 Mark all messages as read - **Shift + Esc**
 Mark a message as unread - **Alt + Click**

## Creating Messages

Edit your last message - **Up Arrow in empty message field** (this shortcut changes to **Ctrl + Up Arrow** if **Use up and down arrows to cycle through your typed history** is enabled)
 Bold selected text - **Ctrl + B**
 Italicize selected text - **Ctrl + I**
 Strikethrough selected text - **Ctrl + Shift + X**
 Quote selected text - **Ctrl + Shift + &gt;**
 Convert selected text into a numbered list - **Ctrl + Shift + 7**
 Convert selected text into a bulleted list - **Ctrl + Shift + 8**

## Viewing All Keyboard Shortcuts in Slack

For a complete list of shortcuts in Slack, press **Ctrl + /**.

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