While I find it bizarre that when you select a word and press ctrl+b, u or i the word does not stylize, but indents to the right slightly with a strange space beside it between the previously typed word (if any). When you press enter, the word(s) will show just as you told them to, except one type.

When I select a (group of) word(s) and press ctrl+i, the word(s) intent, but also disappear. And sure enough, when I send my message, all I see is blank text, as if I never wrote anything at all. All the ctrl+b and u work, but not i. This bug has actually been around for quite awhile now, and I'm surprised it has never been brought up (so I presume) or has not been fixed.

Confirmed, it also works like that on my computer.

AFAIK, ctrl-i is not the shortcut to make text italic in messenger - I think it's a tab character or something. I also can't remember what the shortcut for italic is, and I don't have access to messenger atm so I can't check it.

It's Ctrl+T.

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Originally posted by Mnjul
It's Ctrl+T.

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Originally posted by Aardvark
But now my question would be why ctrl+t? And furthermore if it's actually ctrl+t, why have this weird function happening when you press ctrl+i? Wouldn't it make more sense make it ctrl+i instead? Or is there some reason why that cannot be done (I presume there is otherwise it would've been done in the first place)

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Originally posted by Aardvark
To add do that I would say Plus! inconsistent in how it shows text has been formatted. When I pressed ctrl+t, vertical bars appeared either side of the text to show it had been formatted. This is not the case when you format text using bold or underline. I notice strikeout gets vertical bars next to it. Why don't bold and underline get something?

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Originally posted by Menthix
Since Microsoft has already taken Ctrl+I Patchou just took Ctrl+T, T being the second character in italic .

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What you press Ctrl+B / Ctrl+U / Ctrl+T / etc. Plus! will insert a special character, how this character is displayed depends on the font you're using, Plus! can't control this. I believe Plus! tries to use characters which won't display anything in most fonts so it won't look weird to people who don't use Plus! and receive the messages.

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Control+I = Indent

Suddenly...everything makes so much sense.

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Originally posted by Vilkku in the third post in this thread
ctrl-i is not the shortcut to make text italic in messenger - I think it's a tab character or something

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Btw WLM 2009 doesn't use Ctrl+S for making an msn search with the highlighted text anymore, so enabling Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut again for strike out formatting for only WLM 2009 users would be good.