How to Bold, Italicize and Strike through in Discord

Discord is a social media site you get to engage with people through texts.

It is difficult to convey your emotion and gravitas through the text, emoticons can do that work but they miss out on subtlety and are not professional. Hence while writing the texts we need a certain type of formatting. In this article, we will learn how to bold, Italic, and strike through a text.

How to bold?

You can bold a single word or you can bold the whole sentence as per your requirement.
To bold a single word in discord use the following steps.

1. Type “**” before the word you want to bold and then again add “**”  after the word.  Example: **discord**, it will appear as discord.
2. There should not be any space between the “**” and the words you want to bold.
3. To bold a sentence use type “**” before starting the sentence and again type “**” after finishing the sentence.

For example: **This is discord** it will appear as This is discord in the text message.
Again there should not be space between the “**” and first and last letters of the sentence.

How to Italicize?

Similarly, you can italicize a single word as well as a whole sentence.
To italicize you need to follow the following steps:

1. Type  “*”  before the word and again “*” after the  word
   Example :  *discord*, it will appear as discord.
2. To Italicize a sentence use “*” at the starting of the sentence and end the sentence with “*”.
   Example : *This is discord* it will appear as This is discord.

How to bold and italicize?

You can bold as well as italicize the words simultaneously. To bold and italicize simultaneously follow these steps :

Step1: Type “***” before the words and “***” after the sentence.
Example: ***Discord** it will appear as Discord.

How to Strike through

Strike through can be used to bring clarity and correction in the conversation.

1. To strike through a word type “ ~~ ”  before the word and “~~” after the sentence.

   Example: ~~discord~~ it will appear as discord.

2. Similarly to strike through a sentence using “~~” before the first letter of the sentence and again after the last letter of type “~~” of the sentence.

   Example: ~~This is discord~~ it will appear as This is discord.

There you have the basics of formatting in the discord.

Discord is an extremely useful platform to connect and find the like-minded community a engage through them and you could use these formatting methods to convey your point further.