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Text Formatting in Google Talk

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Most instant messengers are very user friendly. They have a toolbar to format your text into different fonts, colors and sizes. You can also convert your important text into bold, italicized or underlined.

Google talk provides some basic features but unexpectedly few things are hidden. I have already told you about hidden emoticons (smileys) in Gtalk and now I will tell you about hidden text formatting techniques in Gtalk.

This feature can be used in both google talk and Gmail embedded chat.

- To type your message in bold, encapsulate it in asterisks (*).

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- To italicize any word, write it between two underscores (_).

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- Use combination of asterisk(*) and underscore(_) to create a dual bold italicized effect.

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Posted by abhishek on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 10:36 pm 

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5 Responses to “Text Formatting in Google Talk”
  1. Dj harsha aka Dj Hash says:
    February 15, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    Its cool stuff…..

  2. JT says:
    November 25, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    also, i found one, but dont know itspurpose.

    ^BIG AND BLUE^ like my balls. try it.

  3. Doug says:
    February 18, 2010 at 11:51 am

    Here’s another:
    -strikeout-

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