{"id":50882,"date":"2015-05-26T15:42:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/?p=50882"},"modified":"2018-11-22T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:03:23","slug":"how-to-bold-text-in-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/how-to-bold-text-in-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Bold Text in Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>This tutorial describes how to make text written into Skype display in bold font. This opening paragraph is bold (it is also in <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/how-to-italicise-text-in-skype\/\">italics<\/a>).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Formatting text in <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/skype\/\">Skype<\/a> can be somewhat counter-intuitive. Luckily here at Silicon Dales we&#8217;ve gone through all the pain on your behalf.<\/p>\n<h3>How to format bold text in skype<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you can <strong>bold your text<\/strong> in Skype conversations:<\/p>\n<p><code>*asterisk*<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Simply place an asterisk before your targeted text and another closing asterisk afterwards. Interestingly, this is how you make something bold in <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/slack\/\">Slack<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>Leave a comment below if this helped you today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alternatives to Skype?<\/strong> We like Slack for text chat, and Meet (the new cooler version of hangouts) offered as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/g-suite\/\">Google Workspace<\/a> subscription as a great way to video conference in your browser &#8211; no software download required. Win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial describes how to make text written into Skype display in bold font. This opening paragraph is bold (it is also in italics). Formatting text in Skype can be somewhat counter-intuitive. Luckily here at Silicon Dales we&#8217;ve gone through all the pain on your behalf. How to format bold text in skype Here&#8217;s how &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to Bold Text in Skype\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/how-to-bold-text-in-skype\/#more-50882\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Bold Text in Skype\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[605,815,2250,1522],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}