How to Add and Use Gifs on Slack


Slack is a business communication app, specially built for workplaces. With Slack, you can communicate with your team, whether you belong to a small business or larger enterprise. It has all the features that messaging services have. Gifs make a chat exciting and if you also want to use Gifs in your conversation on Slack but don’t know how, then check the below-mentioned  guidelines.




How to post Gifs from your computer

1.    Visit ‘https://slack.com/signin’ on your computer’s browser.
2.    Type ‘Slack URL’ of your workspace in the sign in field.
3.    Click ‘Continue’ to log in into your Slack team.
4.    Select a ‘Channel’ from the channels list at the left side menu.
5.    Click the ‘+’ box at the bottom next to the message typing field.
6.    Select ‘Your Computer’ in the prompted menu.
7.    Browse the Gif location.
8.    Find and select the ‘Gif’ to send in conversation.
9.    Click ‘Open’ button at the lower left corner.
10.    Open the ‘Share with:’ dropdown menu to select who can see your shared Gif.
11.    After selecting the audience, click the green ‘Upload’ button.
The GIF is shared with the audience you selected.
How to add and post Gifs from Giphy

Before using Gifs from Giphy into your Slack conversation, you need to settings up Giphy in your Slack account. To install Giphy follow these steps.
1.    Visit ‘slack.com/signin’ on your computer’s browser.
2.    Type ‘Slack URL’ of your workspace in the sign in field.
3.    Click ‘Continue’ to log in into your Slack team.
4.    When you’re in, click the URL field at the top.
5.    Enter ‘slack.com/apps/A0F827J2C-giphy’ into it.
6.    Press ‘Enter’ key. This opens the Giphy installation page opens on your screen.
7.    Click the green ‘Install’ button.
8.    Then click ‘Add Giphy Integration’ button.
9.    Click the ‘General Audiences’ drop down box to choose the maximum rating.
10.    And choose a Gif rating from the options.
11.    Now, click ‘Save Integration’ button.
Now, you can use Giphy to share Gifs in any of your Slack channels.
How to share Gifs from Giphy in Slack

Once you set up Giphy in your Slack account, you can send GIFs directly from the message typing field. Here’s how.
1.    Visit ‘slack.com/signin’ on your computer’s browser.
2.    Type ‘Slack URL’ of your workspace in the sign in field.
3.    Click ‘Continue’ to log in into your Slack team.
4.    Select a ‘Channel’ from the channels list at the left side menu.
5.    Click on the message typing field at the bottom.
6.    Type “/giphy dogs” (without quotes), you can type any GIF you want to share in place of “dogs.”
7.    Gifs match with the word you entered appear on the screen.
8.    Click the ‘Shuffle’ button below the image to view more related Gifs.
9.    Keep clicking until you’ll not find a Gif you like to send.
10.    Click the ‘Send’ button to share in the channel. The Gif you shared now displays in the conversation.
Dave Hogan is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

Source:-  Slack

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