If you’re new to Google Plus, or even if you’re an experienced user, you may have noticed that there isn’t an easy way to format the text of your posts like you would with an email. Fortunately, there is actually an easy way to format the plain text with some special characters.

The formatting is still somewhat limited, but you do have to option to add bold, italics and/or strikethroughs to single words, or a series of words. All you need to do is enclose the word/words with special characters.

Bold – *bold*

Italics – _italics_

Strikethrough – -strikethrough-

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