In Brazil, the application of Whatsapp arrived in the year 2009 initially for IOS system users. Subsequently, the app was greatly developed, providing voice and video calls and payments with bank partnerships. Despite this evolution, the basics always worked well, but messages could be improved with bold, italic, or strikethrough formatting. Shall we learn how to do this?
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For this, the process is done by means of symbols that must be inserted before and after the word or letter that you want to highlight. Therefore, in the next topics you will learn how to format your WhatsApp messages in three ways on your cell phone:
How to make it bold?
Bold is used to draw the reader's attention to some relevant part of the message, it is that word or phrase that you want to put an intonation. To achieve this feat, follow the steps below:
- Open the WhatsApp conversation of interest;
- Write the text normally;
- Select the word or phrase you want to put in bold, put an asterisk before and after, as shown in the example: *example*.
How to italicize?
Italic is used in words and expressions in Latin, it is also used for other foreign languages not incorporated into common usage in Portuguese or not in Portuguese. In addition, animal or plant species names must be written in italics. Learn how to do it following the step by step below:
- Open the WhatsApp conversation of interest;
- Write the text normally;
- Select the word or phrase you want italicized, put before and after the underline as shown in the example: _example_.
How to put the dash in the word?
In moments of material conference, or even in the market check list, the dash is very welcome. With it, it is possible to “delete” that item that has already been placed in the cart, for example. Learn how to do it below:
- Open the WhatsApp conversation of interest;
- Write the text normally;
- Select the word or phrase you want the dash, place the accent “tilde” before and after as shown in the example: ~example~.
