Emojis have been around for ages. They first appeared on forums in the 2000s, then made their way to mobile phones where they proliferated, and now they're making their way to social networking sites. If you're on Windows 10, you might be interested in using them in your messages. In this article, we'll explain how you can make your life easier using some tricks.
Emojis supposed face, as well as acronyms such as “lol”, “brb” etc. However, the excessive use of all of the above led to their further development until we reached emojis. Now almost everyone who writes on the internet has expressed their emotions at least once using emoji.
For mobile phone users, using them is a simple matter. However, for Windows 10 users, things get a little more difficult. Let's look at some ways you can easily find emojis and adapt them to your texts.
1. Using the touch keyboard
One way you can use emoji is through the touch keyboard. First, you need to bring the touch keyboard out of hiding.
1.a.To do this, right-click on the taskbar and click on “Show touch keyboard button”.
1.b. Don't expect anything to appear immediately, but notice a new keyboard icon in the bottom right of your taskbar. Click on this icon.
1.c. A keyboard will appear at the bottom of your screen. You can click on the font that appears on it, but we didn't call it that. Look for and find a smiley face button and click on it. It will bring you to the emoji menu where you will see all the emojis for Windows 10.
1.d. Because this menu may be a little confusing, let's look at two or three basic instructions.
The far left icon, (the square box), is the default skin color selector for all categories. Next to it is a smiley face, which when tapped will take you back to the regular keyboard. After that, starting with the clock icon, are all the different emoji categories. From left to right you'll find emotions, people, events, food, metaphors, symbols, and the "classic emojis" represented as ASCII (:-D, for example).
If you click on any of these categories, you may initially be overwhelmed by the amount of emojis presented to you. This is because you only see the first page of them. To see the remaining pages, click the arrow buttons on the touch keyboard.
1.e. When you see the emoji you want to use, first make sure the cursor is in the correct position where you want to type. Then, simply click on the icon you want, and it will be inserted into your text. Try not to use the physical keyboard in front of you, otherwise the touch keyboard will close immediately. This will cause you to lose the point where the selected emoji.
2. Using the Internet
You can find and use the emoji you want via the Internet. Emojipedia is a useful website where you can enter a search term and get matching results. For example, if you want to find an emoji that includes a cat, type in the search term “cat” and emojipedia will find you all the emojis that are related to cats.
Then you can simply copy the emoji directly from the top of the page and paste it wherever you want. Alternatively, you can click the “Copy” button right below the emoji description to automatically put it on your clipboard.
Of course, there are many other sources on the internet where you can find a bunch of emojis. It's a matter of convenience and patience. If you have another page in mind, you can suggest it to us.
