Bold text - Formatting

You can add bold text to:

  • NHS App messages
  • letters

Use bold text sparingly. Do not use bold to emphasise text.

Information:

Find out more about how to use bold in the NHS Digital service manual.

Add bold text

To use bold text in NHS App messages, use 2 asterisk symbols on either side of the words you want to be bold. For example:

Information:

**this is bold text**

To use bold text in letters, highlight the font you want to make bold then select bold in the font menu in the home tab.