iChat Icon   Formatting your messages

You can use color and fonts to change the look of messages you send. For example, you can change the text to red and underlined for emphasis.

1.Type your message, then select the text that you want to change.
2.Choose Format > Show Colors or Show Fonts to display the Mac OS X Colors and Font windows.
3.To underline or make some text bold, choose the option from the Format menu.

When choosing a font, use one that your recipient is likely to have installed on his or her computer.

To change the default format of all your outgoing messages, change the settings in the Messages pane of iChat Preferences.