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@@ -53,36 +53,35 @@ Service Desk is enabled on GitLab.com. If you're a
[Silver subscriber](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/),
you can skip the step 1 below; you only need to enable it per project.
-1. [Set up incoming email](../../administration/incoming_email.md#set-it-up) for the GitLab instance. This must
- support [email sub-addressing](../../administration/incoming_email.md#email-sub-addressing).
-2. Navigate to your project's **Settings** and scroll down to the **Service Desk**
- section.
-3. If you have the correct access and an Premium license,
- you will see an option to set up Service Desk:
+1. [Set up incoming email](../../administration/incoming_email.md#set-it-up) for the GitLab instance. This must
+ support [email sub-addressing](../../administration/incoming_email.md#email-sub-addressing).
+1. Navigate to your project's **Settings** and scroll down to the **Service Desk**
+ section.
+1. If you have the correct access and an Premium license,
+ you will see an option to set up Service Desk:
- ![Activate Service Desk option](img/service_desk_disabled.png)
+ ![Activate Service Desk option](img/service_desk_disabled.png)
-4. Checking that box will enable Service Desk for the project, and show a
- unique email address to email issues to the project. These issues will be
- [confidential](issues/confidential_issues.md), so they will only be visible to project members.
+1. Checking that box will enable Service Desk for the project, and show a
+ unique email address to email issues to the project. These issues will be
+ [confidential](issues/confidential_issues.md), so they will only be visible to project members.
- **Warning**: this email address can be used by anyone to create an issue on
- this project, whether or not they have access to your GitLab instance.
- We recommend **putting this behind an alias** so that it can be changed if
- needed, and **[enabling Akismet](../../integration/akismet.md)** on your GitLab instance to add spam
- checking to this service. Unblocked email spam would result in many spam
- issues being created, and may disrupt your GitLab service.
+ **Warning**: this email address can be used by anyone to create an issue on
+ this project, whether or not they have access to your GitLab instance.
+ We recommend **putting this behind an alias** so that it can be changed if
+ needed, and **[enabling Akismet](../../integration/akismet.md)** on your GitLab instance to add spam
+ checking to this service. Unblocked email spam would result in many spam
+ issues being created, and may disrupt your GitLab service.
- ![Service Desk enabled](img/service_desk_enabled.png)
+ ![Service Desk enabled](img/service_desk_enabled.png)
- _In GitLab 11.7, we updated the format of the generated email address.
- However the older format is still supported, allowing existing aliases
- or contacts to continue working._
+ _In GitLab 11.7, we updated the format of the generated email address.
+ However the older format is still supported, allowing existing aliases
+ or contacts to continue working._
+1. Service Desk is now enabled for this project! You should be able to access it from your project's navigation **Issue submenu**:
-5. Service Desk is now enabled for this project! You should be able to access it from your project's navigation **Issue submenu**:
-
- ![Service Desk Navigation Item](img/service_desk_nav_item.png)
+ ![Service Desk Navigation Item](img/service_desk_nav_item.png)
## Using Service Desk