<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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📣 Introduction


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.

🔎 Advanced search options


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!

Modifiers

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" 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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Filter and sort search results

To help you find exactly what you need, you can sort and filter your search results.

After performing a search: