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One of the things I like about Google Plus is they are trying to build a great user experience for everyone. They are adding new features and refining features that have issues.
One of the features that I like is the ability to format your Google Plus statuses. Although formatting of status updates isn’t a new idea, surprisingly not all social networks allow us to format them.
Even though Google Plus doesn’t have fancy formatting buttons like you might find on a forum or blog editor, Google does allow you bold, italicize, and do a strike through to the font when creating a status update.
Google Plus Status
To add formatting to your status updates, follow the examples below
- To bold, add a * before and after the word(s) you want to bold
- To italicize, add _ before and after the word(s) you want to italicize
- To Strike Through a word(s), add – before and after the word(s) want to strike through.
Google Plus Status Formatting
For example you set your status like this.
Hi guys did you here what *John Doe* said about blank? He said _blah, blah, blah-. He is one –nutty- creepy guy.
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Thanks for the tips, finally got myself on to Google+ so this is going to be useful, when I really start to get in to the flow of using it 😉
Hi Karen ,
Your Welcome! Google Plus network takes a little to get use to it. But once you get use to it, you will see its potential.
Hello James,
I’m trying to join Google Plus, but I’m having some diffculty. Do I need an invite? How do you I get myself on to google plus?. I want to implement the tip. Thanks for sharing.