How to add bold, italics, strikethroughs or numbered lists to your WhatsApp messages

In WhatsApp you can use several tools to enrich your text with bold, italics, strikethrough, monospace and more. Here I explain how to do it step by step:

Bold

To write in bold typeyou must enclose the word or phrase with asterisks *texto* at the beginning and end of the text you want in bold. Example: It will look liketext

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Italics To put initalics _texto_ use underscores (_) before and after the text. Example: It will look liketext

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Crossed out ~~texto~~ To strikethrough text, use tildes (~~) before and after the text. Example: It will look liketext

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Monospaced) antes y después de la frase. Ejemplo: texto The monospaced or code format uses three grave accents ( texto“` will look like

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Bulleted lists

To add a bulleted list to your message, place an asterisk or dash and a space before each word or sentence:

* text

* text

EITHER

– text

– text

Numbered lists

To add a numbered list to your message, place a number, a period, and a space before each line of text:

1. text

2. text

Quotes

To add a quote to your message, place an angle bracket and a space before the text:

> text

Aligned code

To add an inline code to your message, place a grave accent on both sides of the message:

`text`

Links

To insert links, simply paste the URL into the message and WhatsApp will automatically generate a preview of the link.