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Slack Help Center: Use mentions in Slack

Documents mentions as a direct way to notify people, typing @ and selecting a member from suggestions, repeated mentions in one message, notification behavior in channels and DMs, private-channel access limits, ambiguous display-name disambiguation, and mention activity views.

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Mentions Choose mentions when the interaction begins in prose or rich text and the user needs an inline reference that targets a recipient or audience. Typing @ opens a suggestion list scoped to the current workspace, channel, object, permission boundary, and caret location. Slack supports @ member suggestions, multiple mentions, channel and DM notification behavior, private-channel non-delivery, ambiguous display-name selection, and mention activity views.

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