Want your WhatsApp messages to stand out? Here are the simple tricks to add bold, italics, strikethrough, or bullet points or quotes to your texts.
WhatsApp offers many features that traditional SMS or iMessage don’t. Besides free-of-cost messaging or calling services without geographical restrictions, all of its functionality is available across platforms without discrimination based on your operating system or its web client. To highlight parts of any message, you can also use special formatting — a feature that is rare among messaging apps.
Over the years, WhatsApp has gained extensive markup features, not only to format text, but also to make lists or quote text. The following sections take you through the simple steps to format text on WhatsApp to make your messages more structured and compelling.How to bold text in WhatsApp using symbols
There are broadly two ways to add formatting to your WhatsApp texts, and the first one involves using simple markup notations similar to word processors such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Here is how you can bold, italicize, or strikthrough text messages using symbols.
To bold any part of the text, use asterisks ( * ) before and after that portion.How to italicize text in WhatsApp using symbols
You can italicize text by using underscore ( _ ) symbols on both sides of the text.
