How to Make the Text Bold in WhatsApp

Written by Jack Lloyd

This wikiHow teaches you how to format your text in WhatsApp to be bold.

Steps

1
Open WhatsApp. It's a green app with a white phone icon on it.
- If you haven't yet set up WhatsApp, do so before continuing.
2
Tap Chats. This tab is either at the bottom of the screen (iPhone) or near the top of the screen (Android).
- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, first tap the "Back" button to view your Chats list.
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Doing so will open the conversation.
It's at the bottom of the screen.
5
Type an asterisk both before and after the text you wish to bold. For example, to bold the phrase "I like trains", you would type *I like trains*.
- If you wanted to bold one word in a sentence, you would type something like I *like* trains.
It's to the right of the text field. This will send your message; you should see your selected word(s) or phrase(s) displaying bold text.

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