Google Talk: Quick Text Shortcuts – Bold and Italics

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Quick description of shortcut methods to generate bold and italic text in google talk.

Chatting with somebody in google talk today I noticed they were using bold and italics like crazy. I asked what was up… and they shared these tricks.

Bold Text

Include your text between asterisks
*word* = word

Italics Text

Include your text between underscore marks
_word_ = word

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60 Comments -

1. Dilip said on October 1, 2008

   gr8

2. Alex said on November 12, 2008

   Thanks for that, I didn’t know there was italics!!

3. trust said on November 14, 2008

   have(bold and it) two type or more pls reply me

4. no name fool said on December 18, 2008

   woow,
   “we didn’t know”

5. Anon said on January 15, 2009

   Very Helpful! Thanks

6. fd said on January 22, 2009

   I had worked those out …. some how, are there more?

7. fd said on January 22, 2009

   I had worked those out …. some how, are there more?

8. nishadmail.com said on June 15, 2009

   try –text– :)

9. asdf;lkj said on June 25, 2009

   I think there’s one for crossed out text too, but I don’t know it.

10. Royston said on August 6, 2009

    its –

11. pope said on August 27, 2009

    also you can -strikethrough- something as well

12. pope said on August 27, 2009

    sorry, didn’t realize there had been any comments, should have scrolled I know…

13. Anonymous said on September 15, 2009

    Any more tips and tricks…enjoyed reading the others?

14. jk said on February 20, 2010

    -strike through- (puts a horizontal line through the text)

15. Nidhi said on April 3, 2010

    For strikethrough text
    -word-

16. Syllepsis said on May 22, 2010

    try: -word-

17. Sarah said on August 3, 2010

    this is not that cool its kool not really somepeople dont like stuff liuke that its to boring no ofence

18. Guest said on August 24, 2010

    I wanted to learn to _italicize_ a word when leaving a comment. _Thanks_

19. Guest said on August 24, 2010

    I guess not.

20. Guest said on August 24, 2010

    Nope, not that either.

21. Guest said on August 24, 2010

    Does _Control I_ work?

22. Guest said on August 24, 2010

23. Guest said on August 24, 2010

    last time, really

24. Guest said on August 24, 2010

    FINALLY!!

25. Guest said on August 24, 2010

    In Disqus comments, that is. (I know, I talk to myself a lot)

26. guest said on September 7, 2010

    _italics_

27. Guest said on September 7, 2010

    augh

28. robson said on October 19, 2010

    bold
    italic

29. robson said on October 19, 2010

    [b]bold[/b]
    [i]italic[/i]

30. Sarah! said on November 19, 2010

    You suck at spelling and punctuation. “No ofence.”

31. Nevermind said on December 23, 2010

    it doesnt work on different langauges like Arabic or Hebrew. :-(

32. ab said on January 14, 2011

    [i]italic[/i]

33. ab said on January 14, 2011

    _italic_
    italic

34. ab said on January 14, 2011

    it works finally

35. 41bxf50 said on February 1, 2011

    [b]bold[/b]

36. Anonymous said on February 7, 2011

    ok

37. Tony Jones said on February 8, 2011

    For anyone wondering how the bold and italics were done in the previous posts, Disqus uses control characters set in brackets, so
    bold shows as bold if you leave out the spaces between the
    Likewise for italics and italics

    There are several more controls you can use and they’re listed here..

    http://docs.disqus.com/help/19/

38. Specnardo said on February 22, 2011

    what about
    -text here-
    to cross things out?

39. Giumri said on March 2, 2011

    _italic_

40. guest said on March 2, 2011

    [i]italic[/i]

41. guest said on March 2, 2011

    italic

42. Elazo said on March 5, 2011

    *bold*

43. Anon said on March 6, 2011

    –strikethrough–

44. The Beswicks said on April 17, 2011

    *bold*
    _italic_
    -strikethrough_

45. Graham said on April 17, 2011

    [i]italic[/i]

46. Graham said on April 17, 2011

    *bold*
    _italic_
    -strikethrough_

47. Cthulhu Shrugged said on May 5, 2011

    *word*
    _word_

48. Cthulhu Shrugged said on May 5, 2011

    bold

49. Cthulhu Shrugged said on May 5, 2011

    word
    word
    word
    word
    word
    word

50. CocoLush said on May 12, 2011

    *word*

51. CocoLush said on May 12, 2011

    word

52. CocoLush said on May 12, 2011

    word
    word

53. Anonymous said on May 25, 2011

    strickthrough

54. Anonymous said on May 25, 2011

    -word-

55. Anonymous said on May 25, 2011

    word

56. Anonymous said on May 29, 2011

    *bold*

57. Kaskus said on July 8, 2011

    _kaskus_
    *kaskus*

58. Kaskus said on July 8, 2011

    _kaskus_
    *kaskus*

59. Kaskus said on July 8, 2011

    _kaskus_
    *kaskus*

60. ASEHU said on January 14, 2012

    Thank you so much my friends said I couldn’t do it but you told me how to do it