WhatsApp Formatting Tips

Vol 27, Issue 3, 07th February 2025

WhatsApp has become one of the most important social media apps of our day-to-day lives. It is quick as well as efficient in many ways. The app has enhanced its features recently with a massive growth of worldwide users.  This article will focus on some important formatting tips in WhatsApp messenger.

Bold

This option can be enabled by inserting asterisks (*) beside the word or sentence.

*example text*

Italic

We can use the underscore to enable this formatting option.

_example_

Strikethrough

If you want to strikethrough a word or sentence, use tilde beside words/sentence

~example~

Above mentioned 3 points are popular among the WhatsApp users. Let’s pay attention to some unpopular features.  

Monospace

This option can extend the space between letters. You can use three backticks beside the word/sentence to enable this feature.

“`example text“`

List

There are two types of WhatsApp lists. They can be either bulleted lists or numbered lists. We can select the list type by using asterisk or hyphen. Numbered list feature can be enabled by using a number and period mark.

* example

– example  

1. example

Quote

If you need to quote a text, you can easily use this method. All you have to do is use an angle bracket and space.

 >example

Inline Code

This feature has been developed by specially focussing the people who is doing coding. They can easily transfer code snippets through WhatsApp using this feature. However, anyone can use this feature according to the various requirements, not just only for coding.

All you have to do is use one backtick beside your word/sentence to enable this feature.

‘example’

Now you can enhance your WhatsApp experience with the support of above-mentioned handy tricks.