Type and Send Italic and Bold Text or Word Message in Google Talk or Gmail Chat Services

Google treasures its simplicity, as you can notice on the Google search homepage. And this trend seems to be carried over to Google Talk, the instant messaging (IM) client from Google. The Google Talk is simple with much less features when compared with Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (aka MSN Messenger), especially on the ability for customization. One of the feature that lack in Google Talk IM client is ability to choose and change font including style, size and effect.

Until Google adds in new feature in Google Talk to support font changing or rich text messenging capabilities, there is a workaround to send bold and italic text characters or words or sentences with bold and/or italic styles in Google Talk.

To type and IM italic text, word or sentence, use _ _ (underscore) around the text that intended to be italic in style. For example, _this sentence will be in italic_. After clicking Send button or pressing Enter, the text will be displayed in the chat window in italic, i.e. this sentence will be in italic.

To use bold font in Google Talk, simply use * * (asterisk) between the text that intended to be bold in font style. For example, *this sentence will be in bold*. After IM the message, the Google Talk chat window will display this sentence will be in bold.

The bold or italic text in Google Talk trick works not only in downloadable Google Talk client, but also on Gmail chat services that embedded on Gmail webmail interface standard view with chat, which also connect to Google Talk network. So it doesn’t matter which Google Talk client that you used to login to Google Talk, it’s still able to send and receive bold and italic text.


5 Responses to “Type and Send Italic and Bold Text or Word Message in Google Talk or Gmail Chat Services”

  1. GoingGoog
    November 11th, 2009 03:09
    5

    Just found out about this…

    except, when typing, how often do you need to strikethrough a word _before_ you send it to someone? Very cool feature though! thanks!

  2. fireflibuz
    October 8th, 2009 00:09
    4

    strikethrough: – - around the word (dash dash). It would look like this: -test-

  3. PS
    September 9th, 2009 03:13
    3

    how to strikethroughs?

  4. thegreatfixer
    July 3rd, 2009 05:12
    2

    BTW you can use both together

  5. thegreatfixer
    July 3rd, 2009 05:05
    1

    thank you that was brilliant

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