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We already knew that WhatsApp had bold, italics, and strikethrough among its text formats. That is, the possibility of writing messages that stand out from the rest thanks to these formats. However, the hard part was remembering the symbols that transformed the text into this style: asterisks, hash marks, curved lines, hyphens”¦ Now all this changes after the last WhatsApp updatefor the Android platform. Of course, at the moment only for betatester users or testers of the trial version.So you can change WhatsApp text formats more easily.
More comfort
The key to the update that the messaging company has just released is the selector of WhatsApp text formats Simply select one word, phrase, or an entire message before sending it with a long press. This brings up the contextual window that allows you to copy and paste text. But not only that. Now a new submenu has all the text formats supported by WhatsApp.
Depending on the installed keyboard, the format selection may be hidden in a menu, as is the case with the Google keyboard. In others, the dropdown appears with all the options to select the desired one instantly and apply it directly to the marked text
WhatsApp text formats
The key to WhatsApp text formats lies in the symbols. These are placed at the beginning and at the end of the text or word that you want to format. This is a pretty hard work, both for the task of remembering which symbol works for which format. Not to mention the work of editing the text to insert these symbols.
Now everything indicates that bold, italics and strikethrough will have more use in WhatsApp chats. And it is that you only have to mark the text and select the format in the drop-down. Something that speeds up the process enormously, and avoids the effort of memorizing each symbol.
Of course, for now it is a function available only to Android beta users. A trial version that will end up reaching all users in the coming days.
