It’s time for Google Talk tips & tricks!
Shortcuts
- CTRL + Mousewheel up/down: Change the font-size in a conversation window.
- CTRL + E: Center align text in a conversation window.
- CTRL + R: Right align text in a conversation window.
- CTRL + L: Left align text in a conversation window.
- F9: Open Gmail compose page to send an email to your friend.
- F11: Start a call with your friend.
- F12: End the current call.
- ESC: Close the current conversation window.
- ALT + ESC: Minimize the current window.
- CTRL + SHIFT + L: Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbers.
- TAB: Switch between multiple chat windows.
- CTRL + I: Same as TAB.
- SHIFT + TAB: Same as TAB but in reverse order.
- CTRL + TAB: Same as SHIFT + TAB.
Others
- A message is restricted to 32767 characters.
- Certain smileys are recognized by Google Talk and will be highlighted in blue color.
:-O 
B-) :'( :O
- To bold text in a Google Talk conversation, put a * around the word(s). Ex: example: Care for a *date*? –> Care for a date?
- To italicize text in a Google Talk converstation, put a _ around the word(s). Ex: example: Care for a _date_? –> Care for a date?
- You cannot bold nor italicize more than 100 characters at a time. If you exceed the limit, the desired effect will not take place.
- You can right click on the message notification pop-up window to close it.
- To change the display name on Google Talk, you need to go to Gmail account properties and change it there.
- In your away message you can add a website URL, and it will be clickable in conversation windows.
A hidden game uncovered in Google Talk:
Open the about dialog box right-clicking on the Google Talk icon in the windows taskbar. In the about screen you can see ‘play 23 21 13 16 21 19 . 7 1 13 5′. Each number represents a letter. a=1, b=2, c=3 … When you decrypt this message you get: ‘play wumpus.game’. To play the game, invite wumpus.game@gmail.com as a friend, then type “Play”. You’ll now start a game of Hunt the Wumpus.
NOTE: Currently for some unknow reason the wumpus.game game bot seem to be offline.
If you know any Google Talk tips & tricks, please post them here in a comment.
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To bold and italicize, do this * and this _ in the beginning and end.
To bold and italicize put * and _ in front of your word or sentence and in the back.
it you put ^ on either side of some text (the same way you use _ for italic and * for bold) it will turn blue
type in =p then send and see what happens
Line Breaks : Hold down shift and press enter to give a line break in the gtalk IM window. In this way you can write your message in multiple paragraphs.
Startup parameters (go to Start/Run and type “c:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /one_parameter_from_the_list_below)
* /nomutex: allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk.
* /register: write Google Talk settings in the registry.
* /checkupdate: check for new version.
* /factoryreset: revert to default settings.
* /mailto email@gmail.com: send an email with Gmail.
* /diag: start Google Talk in diagnostic mode.
this from :
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-talk-tips-tricks.html
put text between ~ and u ll get text in Devnagari
another trick is if you type in “:(:)” without the quotation marks. it’ll be a pig on the screen
make a monkey:
:(|)
My display name in gtalk doesn;t seem to change wat do i do abt it>???
Q. how to change name(profile) in gtalk… pls help?