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Goal is working on new text editing tools in WhatsApp to highlight and format messages in chats, such as appointment or list creation, which will join the editions it already allows in a future update.
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Users can currently format messages They write to highlight some parts in italics or bold, strikethrough or use a monospace font – the characters have a fixed width, which makes them take up the same amount of space horizontally.
Soon there will be three new options with which to shape the messages, the development of which has been warned by the specialized portal WaBetaInfo in the betas of WhatsApp for Desktop, iOS and Android.
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The new tools, which will arrive with a future update of the messaging service, will allow format a block of text, quote messages or replies in a chat to highlight them and create item lists.
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Source: Elcomercio
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