Spice up your WhatsApp chats with new  8 formatting shortcuts!

By Ankur Gupta

Ankur Gupta

Feb 26,2024

Tired of plain text messages?  WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging app, has just upped its game with new formatting shortcuts for user messages and text.

Here are all eight shortcuts for text formatting, including bold, italic, strikethrough, monospace, bullets, numbered list, block quote and inline code.

Bold

To bold your message, place an asterisk on both sides of the text: *text*

Italic

To italicise your message, place an underscore on both sides of the text: _text_

Strikethrough

To strikethrough your message, place a tilde on both sides of the text: ~text~

Monospace

To monospace your message, place three backticks on both sides of the text: ```text```

Bullets

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

Numbered List

To add a numbered list to your message, place a number, period, and space before each line of text:  1. text 2. text

Block Quote

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

Inline Code

To add inline code to your message, place a backtick on both sides of the message: `text`