How to Cross Out Text in Discord? – 2 Simple Ways
Discord is a communication platform that is gaining significant attention and recognition lately. This platform is being used for business purposes, gaming, and the formation of social groups. Although voice communication is one of the major competitive advantages of this platform, it has equally well-equipped and advanced features available for text messaging.
Crossing out text is one such feature of the Discord platform that allows a user to make maximum benefit while communicating with fellow members. Crossing out text is mostly done to indicate the deletion of an error in a given sentence or paragraph. By the end of this article, you’ll be able to make use of this feature and make your text messages more customized taking the utmost benefits of Discord’s special features.
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How to Cross out Text in Discord?
It is incredibly convenient to cross out text in discord. The application provides two different methods through which a user can cross out the texts. These different approaches are through:
- Using Markdown Text
- Using Context Menus
Read the article till the end to learn to cross out text in discord using any of the methods of your choice.
How to Cross out Text in Discord Using Markdown Text?
Markdown text is a formatting system that uses Markup language to bring necessary and required formatting to the text of our choice. It makes the user type the formatting code alongside the text (that you want to bring the effects on) and voila the necessary changes and visual effects will be made to the text. A user can use this feature to create several visual effects on the intended text which may include making the text bold, italic, strikethrough, and others. The strike-through effect is inserted making use of the double tlide symbol (∼∼) To cross out text in Discord using Markdown text, carefully follow the instructions listed below:
1. Log into your Discord account.
2. Click on the server of your choice.
3. Choose the text channel where you want to send the message.
4. Click on the text box and start typing.
5. Add a double tlide(~~) symbol before and after the intended text.
6. Press the ‘Enter’ key; You text will display with the cross-out effect.
How to Cross out Text in Discord Using Context Menus?
The context menu refers to the shortcuts that appear on top of the highlighted text. These shortcut allows you to bold, italicize, underline, cross out text and so much more. All you need to do is hover your mouse around the options and click on the one that you want to apply over your text. To cross out text in Discord using context menus, follow the steps mentioned below:
1. Log into your Discord account.
2. Click on the server of your choice.
3. Choose the text channel where you want to send the message.
4. Click on the text box and start typing.
5. Highlight your text and click on the button as indicated below.
6. Necessary code will be added to your text message.
7. Press the ‘Enter’ key; You text will display with the cross-out effect.
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Conclusion
In this article, we explained the two different ways to cross out a text in Discord. You can choose the method that you find comfortable doing. We hope this article proved to be of use to you. If you found this article useful, do share this with your friends and family. Let us know which method proved to be more convenient for you to use by writing your views in the comment section below.
