When using a phone, you can easily use or type emojis since there is a dedicated feature or option on its keyboard.Īctually, on your Windows 10 and 11 PC, you can still use emojis. ![]() Almost every platform and device like Android, iPhone, etc. Without interesting emojis, no chat conversation is complete. Please check out my extensive Windows 10 help library for tons more tutorials and how-to guides while you’re here.Emojis have become an essential part of your digital life since they can help better express emotions and convey your point of view during communication with others. Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about Windows 10 for quite a while. Remember, Windows + brings up the window and then you can poke around to find the perfect emoji for every post, email and occasion! □īy the way, if you’re on a Mac, try Command + Control + Spacebar for the MacOS X emoji pop-up window! Instead of using NotePad, for example, here’s what happens if I tap into the emoji goodness that is the pop-up Emoji Keyboard while composing an email in Gmail within the Microsoft Edge browser:Īll in all, a really fun addition to Windows 10 that’s definitely worth knowing about. No worries, however, because if you’re using a program that does support color emoji, including skin tone variations, it’ll all work just fine with the Emoji Keyboard. In fact, for every emoji you specify, it seems to have a black & white line drawing of that particular emoji. This is pretty smart representation pick the skin color closest to your own, then any face or hand emoji you select will have a matching skin tone.Įxcept for the fact that a lot of Windows apps can’t display color emoji at all. And remember, as of a few years ago, any emoji that has a skin color lets you specify which shade of skin you’d like too: No worries, however, because you can still use the category icons along the bottom of the window to explore the full catalog of emoji to identify what you seek. Sometimes you can end up in a situation where the Emoji Keyboard is shown but it can’t find a match for what you’ve typed in. Not your cup of tea? No worries, you can try the third tab, the omega symbol, and get a handy shortcut page of various symbols too, including the Greek alphabet, which can be handy if you’re working on mathematical formula or writing about the latest activity of your favorite sorority or fraternity: Click on the “ -)” tab and you’ll find ASCII symbol images, known as “kaomoji”: The Windows 10 Emoji Keyboard has more than just standard emoji, however. You can see that the word ‘cat’ appears in the document, but no worries, if you click or tap on an emoji, NotePad (or whatever program you’re using) will replace the word with the symbol. For example, if I type “cat” it shows just the cat emoji: Pretty fun, eh? But this is more than just a floating window with a catalog of emoji, you can interact with it too. How to do that? How to bring up the emoji keyboard? Simply press the Windows button and the semicolon – ‘ ’ – simultaneously! Here’s what shows up: ![]() Yes, old school:Īt this point I would like to add some emoji to illustrate what I’m writing about. To start, here’s some text I’m typing into NotePad. What most users don’t know is that not only is there a secret emoji keyboard in Win10 but that you can bring it up and interact with it within any program you’re running and with a simple keystroke! It’s no wonder they’re popular in everyday communication and becoming more popular in other contexts too. ![]() Today there are over 3,300 emoji according to emojipedia! Add variations in skin color and the number might even be higher. There’s even an international standards body – The Unicode Consortium – involved that screens and considers proposed emoji and adds a few hundred each year to the official spec. Zoom forward a few decades and we’ve gone from that colon-dash-paren smiley face to an entire world of emoji. A symbol that looked something like this: :‐) Then people started to experiment and noticed that if you tilt your head sideways and squint, the sequence of a colon, dash and parenthesis kinda looks like someone smiling. Imagine, there was a point in history where there were no symbols used to represent facial expressions, slices of pizza or police cars.
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