After sharing this infographic on Facebook, we had a couple of emails asking how to they make the formatting changes of bold, italics, and strike through. They saw the inforgraphic but couldn’t understand it.
Where infographics are relatively new, it makes sense that not everyone is accustomed to reading them. So after sending a few messages with the translation, we decided to post it here.
Below is the infographic created by Simon Heyes
To make words BOLD:
When you know which words you’d like to have in bold font type in and asterisk *just before the words you want bold and another asterisk after the last letter of the word you want to have in bold.
example: When you want *BOLD WORDS* use the asterisk.
To make words italic
When you know which words you’d like to have in italic, type in an underscore _ just before the words you want italicized, and another underscore after the last letter of the word you want to have italicized.
example: When you want _italic words_ use the underscores.
To use a strike through strikethrough
Some people like to use a strike through, if you’re one who wants to then use a dash – before the word and a dash after the last letter of the word.
example Watch your spaces if you want -strikethourgh- to draw a line through the word
Be careful not to include a space between the symbol and the letter that you’re styling.
You will need a space between the symbol and the next plain word in your sentence.
Not to worry, you’ll be able to tell immediately if it worked or not.
Happy styling!
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I love infographics. But you now what, Aileen? When I want to post it on my blog with credit to the creator, unless the embed code is provided, it is not easy to copy the image and post it. It always shows up as too small or too big.
Wonder how to manage that. I suppose a prt scr will work..but that’s too tedious.
Thanks – interesting post!
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Vidya,
If you copy the image to a file on your computer and bring that image into your post as you would with any photo (have the post open), before accepting it, select the size you want (thumbnail, large, medium, full size). If you’re not sure, select a size larger than you think. Once it’s in your post, you can reduce it easily by clicking the Edit Image button that appears in the upper left corner of the image when you click on the image. On the Edit Image screen, select the percent that you want to reduce the picture size by.
You can also click the Advanced Settings tab (in the Edit Image screen) and change the size under Advanced Image Settings.
If you make a small picture larger, you’ll lose the sharp resolution so it’s always better to bring the picture in larger than you would like.
Hope that helps!
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Paige, you are fabulous! Great instructional guidance – thanks for sharing that.
Hi Vidya. Paige wrote a great instruction outline. When it’s too big, any photo editor will work to make it smaller. When the creator’s information is too small, but the photo is fine, then it’s an option to give credit just above or below the post.
Hi Aileen,
Good information. It’s always nice to know that we can add a little emphasis to our posts on Google+. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Cathy. Wish Facebook had these options. It is nice to be able to make something bold, and shape the emphasis.
Hello Aileen – I love all these little tips. Now how do I get those big red circles?
Elle
xoxo
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Hi Elle. You could always click “photo” to add (upload) the image.
Hi Aileen,
I truly don’t know how you keep up with all of this. Thanks for sharing it with us. I appreciate you. xo
Hi Tess. Fortunately, it’s nothing you “need” to know. Google Plus works fine without adding any styling to the text. It’s just nice to have the option. Now maybe they’ll add an option for fonts
Again, not necessary – just nice.
Aileen…
I agree with Tess on this front. I am all thumbs and have a hard enough time keeping up with the ‘regular’ stuff. But what you offer are jewels. When I can grasp one of the concepts, I use them. On other fronts, I think I’m getting ready to source it out.
Thanks for what you always bring to the table Aileen. xxoo-Fran
Hi Fran. The good news is that content it is Queen, and everything else is there only to market it and support it. Keep producing great content. because without that, there’s nothing to keep your audience coming back.
Thanks for your comment
Thank you for the good advice. I haven’t spent so much time with google + as I should! Facebook has been the thing I’ve figured out. I’m going to reread this so it sinks in. Thanks Aileen!!
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