A question about gmail formatting for composing messages?
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August 20th, 2009
from iPhone
When composing a message, how do you make it all colorful and stuff?
I’ve recieved some emails and
the text is all fancy with a colored background, but I want to know how do you do it?
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The formatting toolbar!
Above the box to compose a message there should be a bar with options to change the font, font color, font background color, add emoticons, et cetera.
If you don’t have the toolbar, then above the message composing area you should see a link that says ’Rich formatting ยป’. Click that.
There is no Toolbar or “Rich formatting” thing. Or atleast I cant see it.
Right above the box you’re typing in, there should be a line of letters and symbols. Mine starts with B (for bold), I (for italics) and U (for underline). Shortly after those there are two T symbols, one for the text color, one for the background color. You don’t see those?
@Tink1113, your Gmail is set to use basic HTML. This page will help you change it to standard HTML, which has the formatting toolbar. Your browser may not support the standard format, which is why you can’t see it. Use the link on that page to check.
Not that I’m aware of. But I have Gmail on my iPhone and there’s no fancy colours or whatnot on it.
I’m on iPod, that sucks :( But It clearly says no Rich formatting there.
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