<aside> 👇 Navigate to other sections of our Slack guide:
Slack
Starting with Slack
Channel guidelines
Rules and conventions
Reducing noise in Slack
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So, you’ve reviewed the ‣ guide, you’re feeling comfortable with the basics of Slack, and you’re ready to dig into more features–great news!
In this guide, we will introduce you to some of Slack’s more advanced features, including simple features such as 🎗️Reminders and more complex features such as 🤖Bots.
Remember how we shared how to initiate a search in the ‣ guide? Well, here are some options that will help you find exactly what you need even faster!
To narrow the scope of your results, you can add modifiers to your search terms. Refer to the table below👇 for a list of modifiers that you can use to search in Slack.
| How to narrow your search | Example |
|---|---|
| Add quotation marks to search a specific phrase | "marketing report"Â will find results containing the entire phrase |
| Add a dash in front of a specific word to omit results that contain it | marketing -report will find results for marketing that do not contain the word report |
| Add in: and a channel name, teammate(s) name, or section name to search within specific conversations | marketing report in:#team-marketing will find results in the #team-marketing channel |
| Add from: in front of a display name to search for information shared by someone specific | marketing report from:@Sara will find results from Sara |
| Add has: in front of an emoji code to search for messages with a specific emoji reaction | marketing report has::eyes: will find results people reacted to with the eyes emoji (using hasmy::eyes: will find results that you've reacted to) |
| Add is:saved or has:pin to search for something you’ve added to your saved items or is pinned to a conversation | marketing report is:saved will find results that you’ve added to your Saved items |
| Add before: , after: , or on: in front of a date, or during: in front of a month or year | marketing report during:august will find results shared during the month of August |
| Add is:thread to search within threads | marketing report is:thread will find results within threads |
| Add with: in front of a display name to search in threads and direct messages (DMs) with a specific person | marketing report with:@Sara will find results in threads and DMs with Sara |
<aside> 🚀 Pro Tip: You can combine multiple modifiers to find information more quickly. For example, marketing report in:#team-marketing from:@Sara will find results for marketing report in the #team-marketing channel from Sara.
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To help you find exactly what you need, you can sort and filter your search results.
After performing a search: