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A channel card with its name and public visibility A channel card with its name and public visibility A channel keeps a team conversation in one place. Use one for a department, a location or a topic that people will return to. Choose its visibility before posting anything private.
Creating and managing channels depends on your role. If Create channel is missing, ask an administrator to check your permissions. Creating a channel and sending messages also need the workspace’s Messages add-on.

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Create a place to talk

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Open Messages

Choose New → Create channel.
2

Name the conversation

Enter a name and, if useful, a description. Check the name preview: Begin converts spaces and capital letters automatically.
3

Choose who can find it

Choose Public for a channel anyone in the workspace can find and join, or Private for invited members only.
4

Add people and create

Select the people, or the department or role selection, who need the channel, then click Create. The channel opens, ready for your first message.
For membership that follows a department or role, use Managing channel members.

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Change who can read it

Open the channel’s three-dot menu and choose Channel settings → General to edit its name, description or visibility. Click Save changes and confirm a visibility change. A public channel can be read before joining. Click Join channel to participate. A private channel needs an invitation; knowing its name does not give someone access. Channel settings showing the channel name and visibility choices Channel settings showing the channel name and visibility choices
Making a private channel public exposes its full history, including messages written while it was private. Making it private again cannot undo what someone has already read.
Opening a private channel to everyone requires channel administration rights as well as permission to edit channels.

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Leave or put a channel away

Choose Leave channel to stop belonging to it. You can rejoin a public channel; a private channel needs another invitation. If you created the channel, you cannot leave it and cannot hand it to someone else. Archive it when it has finished, or leave it in place and set your notifications for it to Nothing. Choose Archive when the conversation has finished. The channel moves to Archived, keeps its history and stops accepting messages. Use Restore channel there to reopen it. Delete permanently removes the channel and its messages from use and cannot be undone. Archive and delete actions require the relevant management permission; their absence is not a reason to leave and recreate the channel.

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Next

Managing channel members

Add the right people to a channel and keep its membership in step with your team.

Replies and reactions

Send a message, keep a reply with its question, and correct what you wrote.

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