To make text bold and italic in Gtalk

All messengers other than Google talk have the text formatting feature to change font and color of the text. In Gtalk you don’t find text formatting feature but you can do bold your text in Google talk by using a simple trick of asterisk (*) as

*Your chat message*






Please note that you should not give spaces between asterisk (*) and your text to make it as bold and at the same time you should give space before asterisk.













Formatting the text bold demo Gtalk