How To Type In Bold In Google Talk
Wondering how I wrote in bold letters in Google Talk? This is what I am writing this tip for. In this post, I’ll tell you how you can use bold letters between a sentence while chatting in Google Talk. Most instant-messengers, nowadays, have the text formatting feature to change your text font, colour and to make it bold, underline or italicized.
But for some reason, this is a missing feature in Google Talk, and I don’t think they have any coming plans to add it in Google Talk. Once day, while chatting with a friend, I accidentally found this trick to make letters bold. While chatting I wrote *punch your face* and when I press Enter, this message came up in bold letters.
This is how I found this trick. If you want to type any word, phrase or a sentence in bold, type * below and after the text. I have added two screenshots (below), for you to understand better.
You Will Write:
Output:
11 Comments
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Nice Tip Haris :smile: , I suppose their should be more Tips of like this.
May 18th, 2008
Rakshit
Also, if you want to send italic text in GTalk simply put underscore “_” before and after the message you would like to send.
e.g. :- “Hi this is _Rakshit_ from _rakshitk.com_” would look like “Hi this is Rakshit from rakshitk.com“.
Enjoy
:-D
May 18th, 2008
Vaibhav
Nice find Harris, just wondering if it is a bug in gtalk :?:
May 18th, 2008
Rockstar Sid
Yupe,knew this secret :mrgreen:
May 18th, 2008
Davinder
Very nice indeed… try to dig few more :razz:
May 18th, 2008
Madhur Kapoor
Nice find Haris. Never knew this
May 18th, 2008
Haris
@Rakshit:
Hey, never knew about that. Thanks a lot for sharing it here :)
@Valibhav:
I think they forgot to add a text formatting option in Gtalk.
@Sid, Davinder, Madhur, Sandip:
I’m glad you guys liked it. There’s a lot more coming in the next few days.
May 18th, 2008
Pratyush
That was a cool trick buddy, time to surprise my friends :grin:
May 19th, 2008
sibbl
o_O nothing really new … you can find it out easily by typing *gg* … if you put a space char in front of the 2nd * it is not shown bold: *gg *
you also may use both bold and italic *_test_*
May 27th, 2008
saima
hey haris
cool tips!!
Aug 15th, 2008
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