Be a Google Chat wizard

Amaze your friends with your Google Chat skills:

1. Format your words by putting special punctuation around them:

     bold with *asterisks*
     italicize with _underscores_
     strikeout with -hyphens-

2. Use "/me" to describe yourself in the third person. For example,

     /me is a chat wizard.

     becomes

     Sarah is a chat wizard.

3. Change your default smiley style using the little smiley face in the bottom right corner of the chat input box.

4. Use hidden emoticons, like :(|) for monkey or +/'\ for bell (you can always use more cowbell).

5. Find all your previous chats in Gmail under the Chats label, or go off the record with... off the record.