Amazingly with Google Plus you can create artistic posts and comments using keyboard shortcuts, text formatting tricks and some ASCII characters. You can make your fonts bold, italic and strikethrough. You can also navigate easily from one corner to another, from one app to another using hotkeys. This will help you create beautiful posts to share with your friends. The tables below will show you simple keyboard shortcuts, text formatting tricks and some special keyboard characters called ASCII for both posts and comments respectively.
Google+ Keyboard Shortcuts
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS | EFFECT |
@ | mention someone in a post For example: @Mohammad |
+ | mention someone in a post For Example: +Mohammad |
q | Press Q twice and you will be taken to the Chat Search box |
Space | Scroll down stream by regular intervals |
Shift + Space | Scroll up stream by regular intervals |
Enter | It will take you to the comments box after you select any Stream/status Update |
Tab + Enter | End Comment |
J | Scroll down to next Google+ stream update |
K | Scroll up to previous Google+ stream update |
Google Plus Text Formatting
TEXT FORMATTING | EFFECT |
* | *bold* will become bold |
_ | _italics_ will become italic |
- | -Mustafa- will become |
Using ASCII Characters in Google+
ASCII is a character encoding scheme that helps you to draw characters which are not available on normal keyboards. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII now. You can also use ASCII in Google Plus creating cool characters like these:
▲
▼◄
◊
○●
◘
◙
◦
☺☻
☼
♀
♂
♣♫
♥
▓
▒
░╥
╪
♫
⅜
⅛█
╠╛
♦
⅔
†™
█
▀
⅓
Ω
♪
۞
№→
₪
↕
®¶
½
¾
¼
©‡
¢
ﺁ ﷲ
≥∞
√
∏
≈
♠(-’๏_๏’-)
(◐ o ◑ )
(⊙…⊙ )
(•ิ_•ิ)
(•ิ_•ิ\)๏[-ิ_•ิ]๏
(/•ิ_•ิ)(¯`•¸•´¯)
εїз
ღღღ
Why not use these artistic ASCII characters to create impressive and eye-catching posts and comments:
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──██─────██───██▄█▀───██▄█───
──██─────██───██▀█▄───██▀█───
─▄██▄▄█─▄██▄─▄██──██─▄██▄▄ ▄─ Thank you!______ __ __ __
/\__ _\/\ \ /\ \ /\ \
\/_/\ \/\ \ \___ __ ___\ \ \/'\ ____\ \ \
\ \ \ \ \ _ `\ /'__`\ /' _ `\ \ , < /',__\\ \ \
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \/\ \L\.\_/\ \/\ \ \ \\`\ /\__, `\\ \_\
\ \_\ \ \_\ \_\ \__/.\_\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_\/\____/ \/\_\
\/_/ \/_/\/_/\/__/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/___/ \/_/
_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/
_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/
_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/
_____ _ _ _
/__ \| |__ __ _ _ __ | | __ ___ / \
/ /\/| '_ \ / _` || '_ \ | |/ // __| / /
/ / | | | || (_| || | | || < \__ \/\_/
\/ |_| |_| \__,_||_| |_||_|\_\|___/\/
@@@@@@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@ @@@ @@@
@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@ @@@
!@@ @@! @@@ @@! @@@ @@! @@!
!@! !@! @!@ !@! @!@ !@! !@
!@! @!@ !@! @!@ !@! @!! @!@
!!! !@! !!! !@! !!! !!! !!!
:!! !!: !!! !!: !!! !!:
:!: :!: !:! :!: !:! :!: :!:
::: ::: ::::: :: ::::: :: :: :::: ::
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( _`\ ( _ )( _ )( ) ( )
| ( (_)| ( ) || ( ) || | | |
| | _ | | | || | | || | _ | |
| (_( )| (_) || (_) || |_( )| |
(____/'(_____)(_____)(____/'(_)
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| |__ | || '_|| -_| | || _||__|
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_______ _
(_______) _ | |
_ ___ ____ _____ _____ _| |_ | |
| | (_ | / ___)| ___ |(____ |(_ _)|_|
| |___) || | | ____|/ ___ | | |_ _
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| | | __/ ( | | _|
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| | / // __ \| | / // /
| | /| / // / / /| | /| / // /
| |/ |/ // /_/ / | |/ |/ //_/
|__/|__/ \____/ |__/|__/(_)
(¯`·._.·[ Oh Thank you Buddy! ]·._.·´¯)
°o.O Thank you Buddy! O.o°
×÷·.·´¯`·)» Thanks! «(·´¯`·.·÷×
,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-(_Beautiful!_)-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸
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----•(-•Thanks Thanks!•-)•----
»-(¯`v´¯)-» Loved it! »-(¯`v´¯)-»
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Hope you find these simple shortcuts useful and easy. We will keep you updated with more Google+ tricks within this week. Make sure you don't miss any tutorial and subscribe via Email for free by clicking here.
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