This time we want to talk to you about how to write bold text on Telegram, the most complete instant messaging app that exists. If you often use Telegram to chat, you will surely be interested in knowing how can you highlight part of the text you write. A very simple way to achieve this is to write letters in bold, and here we explain all the ways to do it.
In digital writing, it is common for different formats and styles of letters to be used to emphasize or highlight words, phrases or sentences. When we write in a messaging chat, such as Telegram or WhatsApp, some of these formats and styles can be applied, such as italic, bold, strikethrough, underline, or monospace. Next, we explain the procedure to write bold in Telegram.
How to write bold text in Telegram? all ways
Telegram is an instant messaging application that has become very popular due to its security, privacy, and personalization features. One of the many options that Telegram offers is to change the format of the text that we send to our contacts or groups. We can write in bold, italics, underlined, strikethrough and monospace, and even combine these formats with each other to create more original and striking kitchenware.
There are at least three ways to write bold text on Telegram: writing the code in bold, using the dropdown menu to select that option and activating bots created to change the style and format of the letter. All three ways are equally effective, managing to bold entire messages, sentences, phrases, words, and letters. You can use them in the Telegram app for mobile devices, computers or from the web. Let's talk about each one separately.
Writing the codes manually
Surely you already know that there are certain codes in digital writing to apply different formats and styles to words. Using some symbols and punctuation marks, it is possible to apply certain format in words and sentences. For example, if you want to write bold text on Telegram, just enclose the word or sentence between pairs of asterisks, like this: **word**.
So when you send the message, the asterisks disappear and the enclosed word or sentence is formatted as bold. Likewise, if you want to write text in italics, you just have to enclose the text between underscores (_text_); to write in strikethrough, two tildes are used (~~text~~), and to write in monospace, the phrase or sentence is enclosed between three open accents («`text«`).
Knowing this, you can apply different formats to different words and sentences in the same message to give emphasis or seem more original. Remember that Telegram does not show the changes made in the text field; these apply at the time you send the message. You can do several tests in your personal Telegram chat so you can see how easy and effective it is.
Using the drop down menu
The second method to write bold text in Telegram is using the dropdown menu that appears when you highlight or select a word or phrase. It is something very similar to what happens when we select a sentence in any text editor, such as Word or LibreOffice. When you shade part of the text, a menu appears with formatting options to apply, including bold, underline, italic, strikethrough, and so on.
To be able to apply bold in Telegram with the dropdown menu, follow these simple steps:
- First you have to write something in the text field and select it by pressing your finger for two seconds on the text.
- You will see a menu with four options (Cut, Copy, Paste, Spoiler) and three vertical dots.
- Now click on the three vertical dots and more options will appear, this time to apply formatting to the text.
- Among the options you will see Bold, Select all, Italic, Monospace, Strikethrough. Choose 'Bold' and you're done.
If you want to bold more than one word, you'll need to select a word and then drag the shading to the end of the phrase or sentence. Then you just have to follow the steps above so that the entire selection is bold. With this method there is no code to write at all, and you can apply formatting to embedded letters, words and phrases.
Bold on Telegram with bots like @bold
Finally, let's talk about a third method to write bold in Telegram, one that is reserved only for this messaging app. It is about the use of bots, computer programs that run in the application and can perform an infinite number of scheduled tasks. One of the oldest bots to format text in Telegram is @bold. How to use it to write bold text?
- Type @bold in the Telegram text field and press the space bar.
- Now start typing your message.
- When you finish writing the message, the text format options are automatically displayed (Bold, Italic, Fixedsys, etc.).
- Select the first option (Bold) and the message will be sent with all the text in bold.
This last option it is very useful if you want to write all the text of a message in bold. Now, if what you want is to highlight words or sentences within a text in Telegram, it is best to make it bold using the drop-down menu that we talked about in the previous section.