- In this video, I'll show you how to format text
in Facebook groups without having to copy
and paste from any other weird websites.
And it's such an incredible way to get people
to read your posts
and catch their eyes as they're scrolling through the feed.
So let's look at how to do it.
Okay.
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My name is Jerry Potter,
and today we're walking through how to format
text in Facebook groups.
Now the good news is it's super easy to do.
The bad news is you can't do it on the Facebook app,
like on your smartphone or on a tablet.
You can only do it on a computer in a web browser,
but just know that people who are viewing your post
on a smartphone or a tablet
will still be able to see your formatting.
So that only applies to the creation side of it.
So I'm here in my private Facebook group
for my five minute social academy members
but you can do this in any group
it doesn't have to be your group in order to do this.
So I'm gonna go to the posting box and click there.
And then I just start typing something.
Now, once I've got some of the text there,
I can highlight it and then you should see
this little thing pop up above it.
So if I want it to be bold, I can click bold, italic.
Those are two of the options there
and you have your different sizes.
So you have header one and header two.
So header one or H1 basically looks big essentially.
You can also do big and bold.
So you can combine these.
H2 is all caps and is a lighter gray.
So I kind of like having that, if I want to add a note
about something in between stuff.
If you wanna use the quote, you do that,
and it basically indence a little bit here
and adds a little line here on the end.
So if you are quoting somebody.
And then you also have bullet points
or an ordered list with numbers.
So that's all you have to do,
but let me show you a couple of other things
here that I find to be very, very helpful.
So first thing is if you write your text
and then you come down below
and then you start writing more texts,
sometimes what I'll see happen
is I want to have this one change format,
but then it'll actually change the next one as well.
So what I like to do first is write out everything
that I want to be there.
So let's just keep this quick.
Step one, two, step three, special note goes here.
We'll just call it that.
So then I would start at the top
and that would be my headline.
So I'd want it to be H1.
I'd wanna make it bold and then steps one, two and three
I would probably just leave as is.
I suppose you could make those bold if you want.
And then this one down here I might want to be H2.
Now another shortcut that I'll show you if...
This should be true on both Mac and Windows.
If you're just trying to do bold or italic
you can hit bold just by doing Command + B on a Mac usually,
or Control + B on a PC.
So I can do that without actually having to select it there,
but I'll show you another one.
What they don't have here
but you can still use is if you do Command + U
or Control + U,
so Command + U on a Mac or Control + U on a PC,
you can underline stuff.
So you'll notice nowhere in these options
do they have underline?
So that's sort of an, I guess it's on the secret menu.
So again, you can do Command + U on a Mac
or Control + U on a PC
and then you should be able to also underline
to add your formatting to your posts in the group.
Then when you have the post already to go,
of course, you just hit post or click the calendar button
over here to preschedule your post
and the formatting should stay up.
One more thing that's really important to know,
if you come back and try and edit this post later,
it often loses the formatting.
Now I assume this is just some sort of bug.
It doesn't happen all the time,
but unlike some posts if I'm in a group
and I'm trying to have lots of formatting
'cause I've written long posts
sometimes because they can still look nice
with this formatting.
I will really double check to make sure everything
is exactly the way I want it
because I don't wanna have to come back
and fix it later or have it not work at all
when I come back to edit the actual post.
So keep that in mind.
Really do your best to get it right the first time.
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