Add formatting to your Google Chat messages

You can bold and italicize text in your Chat messages. You can also underline text, change text color, and add bullet points.

Format Google Chat messages

1. Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account. 
2. Go to a conversation.
3. Enter a message.
4. Highlight the text you want to format.
5. Click Format .
6. Select an option:
   • To bold: Click Bold .
   • To italicize: Click Italic .
   • To underline: Click Underline .
   • To strikethrough: Click Strikethrough .
   • To change the text color: Click Text color .
   • To add a bullet point before the text: Click Bulleted list .
7. Click Send .

 Tip: To remove text formatting: 

1. Highlight a word or phrase. 
2. Click Format .
3. Select an option and click:
   • Bold 
   • Italic 
   • Underline 
   • Strikethrough 
   • Text color 
   • Bulleted list 

Use markdown formatting in Google Chat

Important: If you use the “Format” button or keyboard shortcuts to format text, it overrides any markdown formatting you add to the message. If you paste formatted text into Chat, it will keep the copied formatting.

To add markdown formatting to your Google Chat messages, you can include special characters in the text.

• To bold text, add asterisks * before and after the text you want bolded.
  For example, if you type *Tuesday*, the chat will display Tuesday.
• To italicize text, add underscores _ before and after the text you want italicized.
  For example, if you type _every week_ , the chat will display every week.
• To strike through text, add tildes ~ before and after the text you want struck through.
• To create an inline code block, add backticks ` before and after the text you want in a code block.
• To create a multiline code block, add three backticks ``` before and after the text you want in a code block.