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How do you remove Slack formatting toolbar?

I rarely add formatting to messages, and would rather the chat box in Slack only be a chat box like in Messenger (and like it was before). Instead now it's double as large and has formatting options I'll never use. How can you turn off Slack's formatting options?

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What do you think of Slack's new WYSIWYG editor?

You can choose whether to upload in Markdown format, HTML, or to format the output using the Handlebars template engine. With StackEdit, you can share collaborative workspaces, thanks to the synchronization mechanism. If two collaborators are working on the same file at the same time, StackEdit takes care of merging the changes. Hi @Xtremefaith. We use here integration with slack posting pretty messages and works very well. You need to use markdown, as you can see here. My suggestion is use a compose action to format your message and use the result of compose in Message Text field, like the prints below, in this case we use ``` ``` to post in slack inside a code block. Slack messaging interface. It is fair to say that sending messages on Slack is the tool's most used feature. Markdown support in the Slack messaging interface leaves a little to be desired, however some elements that make up the basic syntax are available to the user.

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There's an option to turn it off - Preferences > Advanced > Input Options and toggle 'Format messages with markup'.

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a year ago
Choose how you'd like to format messages by going to Preferences > Advanced > Input Options

We recently released a WYSIWYG editor to help you format messages in Slack. To the users who preferred the text markdown from before, we heard you. 🙇

Starting today, you can choose how you’d like to format messages by going to Preferences > Advanced > Input Options. #changelog

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a year ago
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There are several ways to disable Slack's rich text editor

If you just want to hide the 'kitchen sink' formatting toolbar, you can disable it as @maguay described below.

If you want to actually move back to the old Markdown-style formatting options, here's how you can do it:

Chrome

If you use Slack in Chrome, this extension will revert the text formatting for you.

Firefox

Slack Markdown Code

If you use Slack in Firefox, this extension will revert the text formatting for you.

Desktop

Disabling the new text editor in the desktop app is a bit trickier but totally doable if you're willing to wade into some code. @kfahy outlined these instructions on Github (source):

1) Open the slack app in Developer mode

  • On Mac OS X: export SLACKDEVELOPERMENU=true && open -a /Applications/Slack.app
  • On Windows in a Powershell window (per user install): $env:SLACKDEVELOPERMENU='true'; & '$($env:LOCALAPPDATA)Slackslack.exe'
  • On Windows in a Powershell window (machine wide install): $env:SLACKDEVELOPERMENU='true'; & '$($Env:ProgramFiles)Slack Deploymentslack.exe'
  • On Ubuntu with Gnome (using Slack launcher):edit /usr/share/applications/slack.desktopreplace Exec=/usr/bin/slack %U with Exec=env SLACKDEVELOPERMENU=true /usr/bin/slack %U
  • On other OS's: ensure the SLACKDEVELOPERMENU environment variable is set to true before opening the Slack app.

2) Right-click in the app and Inspect element

3) Copy the contents of index.js

4) Paste into the Console tab

5) Repeat each time you reload slack or switch to a team for the first time

Slack Post Markdown

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Slack Markdown Table

a year ago
Click the Aa button in the lower right of Slack's chat box

Slack Markdown Syntax

You can't fully disable Slack's formatting options, but you can hide the Slack formatting toolbar. Click the Aa button in the lower right of Slack's chat box, and Slack will hide the toolbar. You can still use keyboard shortcuts to add formatting, or select text to see a hover toolbar with formatting options, but that'll at least save space and keep Slack looking a bit more like it used to.

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