Get started in Spaces
Find your Account and Space, open a channel or direct message, send a message, and check replies and mentions.
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Open Spaces, choose the Space for your work, then choose a channel to read or send messages. Direct messages have their own place on the left side.
Prefer a visual guide? In Spaces, open Help at the top right and choose Quick visual tour.
Find your place
- Choose your profile picture or initials in the top-right corner and check the Account. If you work in more than one Account, switch to the one you need.
- Open Spaces from the app launcher.
- Choose a Space icon in the narrow column on the far left. Its channels appear beside that column.
- Choose a channel under Channels or a named channel group. Its Messages tab opens first.
On a narrow screen, choose Open menu in the top bar first to show the navigation. The far-left column labels direct messages DMs; the next column is headed Direct messages when you choose it.
If the Space is missing, choose Explore Spaces to look for one you can join. Invite-only Spaces need a Space administrator to add you. See You cannot see a Space if you expected a Space to be there.
Send your first message
- Choose the channel where the people doing that work can see your message. Check the conversation name before sending.
- Type in the message box.
- Press Enter or choose Send message. Use Shift+Enter for a new line.
For a conversation with chosen people, choose DMs in the far-left column, then New direct message. Pick a person and choose Start direct message. See Send a direct message for group messages and Notes to self. See Send, edit, or delete a message to fix text or retry a failed send.
Keep up with replies
- Choose Unread to see conversations with new messages, or Mentions to see conversations where someone named you.
- Use Reply in thread on a message when the answer belongs to that discussion. The channel's Threads tab collects its threads.
- Choose Files in a channel to see files shared there. Use Search in Spaces to find a message, person, file, channel, or Space.
- Review Notifications and mute if you need fewer or more alerts.
If it did not work
- You cannot see a Space explains missing Spaces and access messages.
- You cannot post in a channel explains a locked message box.
- Notifications are not arriving covers missed alerts.
Related pages
- Send, edit, or delete a message — Check the conversation and its audience, send a message, then edit your text or delete the message if needed.
- What a Space is — A Space is a named group of channels and people inside one Account; channels hold the messages, and threads hold side-discussions.
- Send a direct message — Choose DMs in the left-hand navigation, then start a conversation with one person or a small group.
- Unread and Mentions — Unread counts conversations that need you; Mentions counts the individual mentions inside them. Both are per destination.