How To Make Your Text Bold, Italic, or Strikethrough on Google+

July 13, 2011 in Featured, Google+ How To's, How To's, Video

So a lesser known feature of Google+ is the ability to change the font style of your posts using some shortcodes. Want your posts to stand out a bit? Here’s how.

I. Change the Font Style of the Posts

1. Type your post to your stream.

2. Any words you want to be bold simply enclose them in *’s (i.e. *text*)

3. Any words you want to be italic, simply enclose them in *’s (i.e. _text_)

4. Any words you want to be strikethrough, simply enclose them in *’s (i.e. -text-)

5. You can also combine these shortcodes like so to get bold and italic for example (i.e. *_text_*)

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3 responses to How To Make Your Text Bold, Italic, or Strikethrough on Google+

Br. DC said on July 15, 2011

Thanks for this! I shared it on Google+!

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Kenny Strawn said on July 28, 2011

To make text italic, enclose it in underscores, *not* asterisks (which will make it bold).

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Fahad Ahmed said on September 23, 2011

Cool, but why can’t they just have simple bold, italic and strike buttons?

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