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Formatting your Pollys

This help doc shows you how to format your pollys utilizing standard markdown allowing you to add hyperlinks and format text with bold, italic, strikethrough and other formatting options.

Adding hyperlinks to your Polly titles



You can easily add hyperlinks to your polly titles by following these steps:

  • In the Polly title field, put in the url in this format:
    • <http-link|link text>
      example: <http://www.google.com|click here>

 

When authoring in the web dashboard:

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When authoring from within Slack:

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This is what the published polly will look like with the hyperlink added:

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Adding formatting to your polly text

You can now use standard markdown to add multiple types of formatting including bold, italic, strikethrough, in-line code and multi line code blocks to your poll title and survey title/description.

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Use the following markdown syntax:

You can apply different types of formatting using the following syntax:

  1. Bold: This is *bold*
  2. Italic: This is _italic_
  3. Strikethrough:This is ~strikethrough~
  4. In-line code: `This is code`
  5. Multi line code block: ```This is a code block
                                          And it's multi-line```

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✏️ Note: You can only add line breaks when authoring through the web dashboard, this feature isn't available when authoring from within Slack.