You Are Bold When You Bold

No doubt about it if you bold text in e-mail you are being bold! Don't underestimate how bolding certain words or sentences can make an otherwise benign statement one with a point. To make the extra effort to bold only certain terms or phrases certainly makes a point of making a point.

Then, if you turn that bolded word to red text -- Yikes! Be sure that is the tone you want to relay. To say after the fact that you "didn't mean it that way" simply implies you are unable to stand behind your comments and what you did in fact mean to say when you composed that e-mail. Otherwise why did you take the extra time and effort to bold those specific words?

Bolding many times is used in emotional e-mails to make sure the other side is clear about how strongly the writer feels at that point in time. If you find you are bolding several portions of an e-mail because you do in fact want to make a point, why not wait until the next morning to see if you still feel as strongly?