Most of instant messengers have the text formatting feature to change your text font, colour and to make it bold, underline or italicized. But this feature is a missing in Google Talk for some reason.
Haris from SizzledCore accidentally found a way to type in bold in Google Talk :
You Will Write:
Output:
If you want to type any word, phrase or a sentence in bold; type your words between two asterisk (*) signs like : *Hello World*
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My name is Deniz Akay and I live in
Also, playing hang man the other day, I found out that italics happens when you put _ on either side of a word/phrase. Plus, _*this would be bold and italics*_. Hope thats helpful!
Great tip, thanks dan ;)