Loads of people have been using the new Google Buzz in their Gmail recently, and the big question everyone wants to know is how to do bold, underline, italic and strikethrough in Google Buzz? Well actually it’s quite simple, and even though it seems like there are no ways to control what the text in your Google Buzz messages looks like, there actually are.
Bold, italics and strikethrough in Google Buzz
If you want to add bold text to your Google Buzz, then you need to put different characters before and afetr your text. Same for adding italics to a Google Buzz message. Strikethrough (where is looks like someone has crossed out what your wrote) can also be done. Here’s a list of different ways to alter your text:
How to do bold, underline, italic and strikethrough in Google Buzz
*word* = word bold
Adding stars around your word will make it bold.
_word_ = word italics
Adding underscores around your word underlines it.
-word- = word strikethrough
Adding dashes at the ends of your words makes it crossed out (strikethrough)
If we find any more ways of altering the text in your Google Buzz messages then we’ll update this post and let you know. If you want any other information about Google Buzz, such as Google Buzz emoticons or smileys ten let us know in the comments and we will add them! Also let us know if you have any problems with how to do bold, underline, italic and strikethrough in Google Buzz – maybe we can help :)
How to do bold and italic text in Facebook chat
My girlfriend asked me how to do bold and italic text in Facebook chat. I didn’t know, so I did some research and it turns out you can easily add bold text or italics to your Facebook chat by adding small code around it. I guess bold text can help emphasize your facebook chats, and italics can make your text look different. It’s not really a new font for Facebook chat, but it’s kind of cool. Here’s the code to make your text italic or bold on Facebook chat:
Italic text – _surround your text with underscore_
Get it? Put *stars* around your text to bold it, and put _underscores_ to make it italic! Enjoy your new bold and italic text in Facebook chat!
Update – As the very smart Alex pointed out in the comments, _surrounding with underscores_ does, of course, underline the text. Let’s keep looking for the italic markers!