How to cross out in WhatsApp: Quick guide for beginners
A few hours ago, we have shared a useful quick guide on how to put a text in italics in whatsapp. And today, to complete our series of posts on the different ways to format the texts of our WhatsApp Chats, we will address in this new post on this series, everything related to «how to cross out on whatsapp».
And it is that, after our great and complete initial publication called Can you underline in WhatsApp or do other text effects?, and going through others related to the use of bold and italic letters, well, logically, that now in the latter we address the use of crossed out letters, words and phrases in our WhatsApp conversations.
How to put italics on WhatsApp: A quick guide for newbies
And it is that, it is possible that many of us are not really clear on what we could use strikethrough text in WhatsApp Chatsboth physically and digitally. So, if we go to its strict meaning, according to the RAE, to cross out means to erase (delete) what is written by unos strokes (scratches or blots) over. But, it can also express that something o someone has true missing or fails
For this reason, we may use strikethrough text on our websites, online services, social networks and instant messaging chats to write something that is no longer, or is not, or is damaged. Also for express irony, sarcasm or something we believe is a lie or hard to believe. In such a way, to give it a different use, nothing similar that could be confused with the use of words or phrases in bold or italics.
How to cross out in WhatsApp: Quick guide for beginners
Steps to know how to cross out a word or phrase on WhatsApp
Like in our latest quick guides related to text formatting (words or phrases) within WhatsApp chats, if you are a beginner user in the use of the WhatsApp application, then this publication will surely be very helpful not only for learn to cross out text, if not to know when and how to make use of the bold and italic features.
So keep in mind that, natively, you can apply very basic text editing effects about texts written in WhatsApp Chats, including the use of the crossed text. Plus, bold, italic, and monospaced text.
And that, consequently, the way or steps to be able to write using the strikethrough text is, firstly, starting the WhatsApp application and starting a chat with a contact or a conversation within any group, and then starting to write any desired message.
Arrived up to here, that is to say, being in a WhatsApp chat with a written message about to send, we will have 2 possibilities or ways to insert a strikethrough text that are the following:
Mode 1
- We select (shade) one or more words, that is, a phrase or portion of the text of the written message in such a way that, after a few seconds, the pop-up menu related to the text options is displayed.
- From said context menu, we press the specific text formatting option for the use of the Strikethrough text. Note: In it, the other available options are also shown, which are: bold, italics and monospace.
- And then, we repeat the process, until we have put in strikethrough mode all the words or phrases that we wanted the recipient to pay more attention to when passing their eyes over it.
- Finally, we will be able to send our message to the recipient contact with said strikeout text editing effects successfully.
Mode 2
- In case of not wanting to use or not being able to use the contextual menu of text formatting options, the alternative way that remains is to write between the chosen content, that is, before and after the chosen word or phrases, the character of una tilde (~), to get the “Strikethrough” text effect.
- However, it is worth noting that the following other characters allow us the following other text effects: Un asterisk ( * ) to achieve the “Bold” text effect, underscore ( _ ) to achieve the “Italic” text effect and 3 backticks (` ) to achieve the “Monospaced” text effect.
Strikethrough text is often used to indicate a revision or edit, where you want to leave the original text for full transparency. This font style can also be used to cross out mistakes, be tongue-in-cheek, or check things off a list. Use of strikethrough text / YayText: Web tool for generating texts with various formats
In summary, we hope that this latest quick guide on text formatting in WhatsApp, regardless of whether or not you are a novice user or an expert in said instant messaging application, allows you not only to be clear about what you should know about «how to cross out letters, words or phrases in WhatsApp», but also about how to make them bold, italic and monospaced, which are their basic text editing functions.
While, if you want to know more about advanced editing effects and the use of other fonts used in WhatsApp, we recommend you explore our publication related to this objective, through the following link.