>>You've to subsceibe to Chatter forum. You'll find 'Universal Thread related topics' category under that forum. To practice with message formatting you can use Preview button.
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>Thanks Sergey, didn't think about using the preview button. But, if I select "New message", there is no 'Chatter' forum. The same goes with search messages.. I've looked about 10 times and have not seen it.. :-), am I missing something??

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