diff --git a/Notify_slack.md b/Notify_slack.md
index bd82e6b..13b992e 100644
--- a/Notify_slack.md
+++ b/Notify_slack.md
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ apprise -vv -t "Test Message Title" -b "Test Message Body" \
 Perhaps you want to disable the footer, you can do so like so:
 ```bash
 # Assuming our {OAuthToken} is xoxb-1234-1234-4ddbc191d40ee098cbaae6f3523ada2d
-# we want to send it to our #general channel
+# we want to send it to our #general channel; %23 is the encoded way of representing the #
 # we set footer to no as well
 apprise -vv -t "Test Message Title" -b "Test Message Body" \
-   slack://xoxb-1234-1234-4ddbc191d40ee098cbaae6f3523ada2d/#general?footer=no
+   slack://xoxb-1234-1234-4ddbc191d40ee098cbaae6f3523ada2d/%23general?footer=no
 ```
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