Microsoft Teams

• Bold: Add two asterisks on each side: **text**

• Italics: Add one underscore on each side: _text_

• Links: Use [link text](URL) format (no space between brackets and parentheses)

• Emojis: Can be included within formatting marks: *Hello 👋* (Yes, you can have italic emojis 😄 - they lean just like they're emphasized!)

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Slack

• Bold: Add one asterisk on each side: *text*

• Italics: Add one underscore on each side: _text_

• Strikethrough: Add one tilde on each side: ~text~

• Quoted text: Add a greater-than sign before text: >text

WhatsApp

• Bold: Add two asterisks on each side: **text**

• Italics: Add one asterisk on each side: *text*

• Strikethrough: Add one tilde on each side: ~text~

• Requirement: No spaces between asterisks and text

  • Works: *text*

  • Doesn't work: * text *

• Requirement: Emojis need a space before formatting and cannot be within formatting

  • Works: 😄 *text*

  • Doesn't work: 😄*text*

  • Doesn't work: *😄text*