25 May 2009 ~ 13 Comments

How to do bold and underline text in Facebook chat

Here’s a short guide to doing bold and underline in Facebook chat. It’s pretty simple, but can add some good emphasis to your conversations. They haven’t added different fonts in Facebook chat yet, but they probably will soon. The formatting in FB is similar to Google Talk’s bold and underline system.

Bold in Facebook chat

*Surround your text in stars*
(Shift+8)

Underline in Facebook chat

_Surround your text in underscore_(Shift+Minus sign)

Magic! You now have bold Facebook chat and underline Facebook chat text!

13 Responses to “How to do bold and underline text in Facebook chat”

  1. Bootson 30 May 2009 at 2:16 pm Permalink

    Very useful, and fun to annoy people by bolding one word and underling the next in a sentence. Very amusing, do it to your bf/gf!

  2. Emily 21 June 2009 at 1:27 pm Permalink

    wow. that was reallyyy helpful. thank you so much.

  3. jazzo 23 June 2009 at 3:38 pm Permalink

    is there any way to do italics, perhaps?

  4. Sadie. 19 July 2009 at 11:01 am Permalink

    Does this also work on the status updates?

  5. manya 20 July 2009 at 1:57 pm Permalink

    suite

  6. alice 3 November 2009 at 8:43 am Permalink

    thx this is kwl

  7. nat 4 January 2010 at 9:14 pm Permalink

    is there an italics one?

  8. chazmzz 28 January 2010 at 11:55 pm Permalink

    can you do both?

    • faye ann 2 June 2010 at 5:30 pm Permalink

      …hmmmm ..u can do both …like ds oh.. *_your text here_*

  9. Roland 12 May 2010 at 10:04 am Permalink

    yes *_bold and underline_*

  10. arjun 27 May 2010 at 3:08 pm Permalink

    it was cool and helpful….

  11. ilovehim^^ 29 June 2010 at 2:29 am Permalink

    soo kewl ! tenkx so0o0o0 much ! :*:*


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