Google+ Keyboard Shortcuts and ASCII Tricks

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 Mustafa

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\.\_/\ \/\ \ \ \\`\ /\__, `\\ \_\ 
     \ \_\ \ \_\ \_\ \__/.\_\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_\/\____/ \/\_\
      \/_/  \/_/\/_/\/__/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/___/   \/_/

                                                                   
_/_/_/_/_/  _/                            _/                  _/   
   _/      _/_/_/      _/_/_/  _/_/_/    _/  _/      _/_/_/  _/    
  _/      _/    _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/_/      _/_/      _/     
 _/      _/    _/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/  _/        _/_/          
_/      _/    _/    _/_/_/  _/    _/  _/    _/  _/_/_/    _/       
                                                             

 _____  _                    _            _ 
/__   \| |__    __ _  _ __  | | __ ___   / \
  / /\/| '_ \  / _` || '_ \ | |/ // __| /  /
 / /   | | | || (_| || | | ||   < \__ \/\_/ 
 \/    |_| |_| \__,_||_| |_||_|\_\|___/\/   

                                            
 @@@@@@@   @@@@@@    @@@@@@   @@@       @@@  
@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@  @@@       @@@  
!@@       @@!  @@@  @@!  @@@  @@!       @@!  
!@!       !@!  @!@  !@!  @!@  !@!       !@   
!@!       @!@  !@!  @!@  !@!  @!!       @!@  
!!!       !@!  !!!  !@!  !!!  !!!       !!!  
:!!       !!:  !!!  !!:  !!!  !!:            
:!:       :!:  !:!  :!:  !:!   :!:      :!:  
 ::: :::  ::::: ::  ::::: ::   :: ::::   ::  
 :: :: :   : :  :    : :  :   : :: : :  :::  
                                             

 ___    _____  _____  _      _ 
(  _`\ (  _  )(  _  )( )    ( )
| ( (_)| ( ) || ( ) || |    | |
| |  _ | | | || | | || |  _ | |
| (_( )| (_) || (_) || |_( )| |
(____/'(_____)(_____)(____/'(_)
                            (_)
                               

                               __ 
 __     _  _           _  _   |  |
|  |   |_|| |_  ___   |_|| |_ |  |
|  |__ | || '_|| -_|  | ||  _||__|
|_____||_||_,_||___|  |_||_|  |__|
                                  

 _______                              _ 
(_______)                        _   | |
 _   ___   ____  _____  _____  _| |_ | |
| | (_  | / ___)| ___ |(____ |(_   _)|_|
| |___) || |    | ____|/ ___ |  | |_  _ 
 \_____/ |_|    |_____)\_____|   \__)|_|
                                        

  ___|                |   |
 |      __| _ \  _` | __| |
 |   | |    __/ (   | |  _|
\____|_|  \___|\__,_|\__|_)
                           

 _       __ ____  _       __ __
| |     / // __ \| |     / // /
| | /| / // / / /| | /| / // / 
| |/ |/ // /_/ / | |/ |/ //_/  
|__/|__/ \____/  |__/|__/(_)   
                            

(¯`·._.·[ Oh Thank you Buddy! ]·._.·´¯)

°o.O Thank you Buddy! O.o°

×÷·.·´¯`·)» Thanks! «(·´¯`·.·÷×

,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-(_Beautiful!_)-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸

<º))))><.·´¯`·.Thank you!¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>

----•(-•Thanks Thanks!•-)•----

»-(¯`v´¯)-» Loved it! »-(¯`v´¯)-»

;)°¨¨°º°¨¨°(*)(_.·´¯`·«¤°Thank you Pal!°¤»·´¯`·._)(*)°¨¨°º°¨¨°;)

«««««««Thank you Dude!»»»»»»»»

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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