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Simple Formatting on Gmail Chat

A couple of weeks ago I was chatting using Gmails’ integrated chat feature. The other person then sent a bold formatted message, then I found it interesting. So I started Googlin’ for more formatting options and found that you can actually type in bold, italics, and strikeout. Pretty neat huh?

So here’s the formatting:

• surrounding text with *, as *bold*, turns out bold
• surrounding text with _, as _italics_, turns out italics
• surrounding text with -, as -strikethrough-, turns out strikethrough.

I looked and looked for underline but never found it. If anyone knows how to, please comment.

Update: There’s no way to underline in Gmail chat. Some say holding z, doesn’t work.