How to do bold and underline text in Facebook chat

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How to do bold and underline text in Facebook chat

May 25, 2009
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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.

Free animated smilies for Facebook chat!

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!


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Comments:

  1. Reply
    Bootson said:
    May 30, 2009 at 2:16 pm


    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. Reply
    Emily said:
    June 21, 2009 at 1:27 pm


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

  3. Reply
    jazzo said:
    June 23, 2009 at 3:38 pm


    is there any way to do italics, perhaps?

  4. Reply
    Sadie. said:
    July 19, 2009 at 11:01 am


    Does this also work on the status updates?

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      mark replied:
      September 27, 2009 at 9:55 pm


      no

  5. Reply
    manya said:
    July 20, 2009 at 1:57 pm


    suite

  6. Reply
    alice said:
    November 3, 2009 at 8:43 am


    thx this is kwl

  7. Reply
    nat said:
    January 4, 2010 at 9:14 pm


    is there an italics one?

  8. Reply
    chazmzz said:
    January 28, 2010 at 11:55 pm


    can you do both?

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      faye ann replied:
      June 2, 2010 at 5:30 pm


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

  9. Reply
    Roland said:
    May 12, 2010 at 10:04 am


    yes *_bold and underline_*

  10. Reply
    arjun said:
    May 27, 2010 at 3:08 pm


    it was cool and helpful….

  11. Reply
    ilovehim^^ said:
    June 29, 2010 at 2:29 am


    soo kewl ! tenkx so0o0o0 much ! :*:*

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