How to Create Word Emoticons
Emoticons, or "smileys," are arrangements of three or more text characters in electronic documents that represent your mood about what you have written. Most messaging, email, and word processing applications allow for the substitution of graphic emoticons for textual ones. Graphic emoticons are small images that applications use to replace the typed emoticon characters. Three graphic emoticons are pre-installed for you in Word for Windows. You can add more graphic emoticons using the Word for Windows AutoCorrect feature.
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Instructions
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Open a Word document, and use Insert>Symbol to select and copy the graphic image into your document from one of your installed fonts (for example, Wingdings).
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Single-click the image in the document to highlight it, and then open the Tools>AutoCorrect feature. The image appears in the "With:" box, and the "Formatted text" radio button is checked.
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Position your cursor in the "Replace" box, type the text you want to replace with the font graphical image, and click "Add."
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Confirm that the "Replace text as you type" option is checked, and click "OK."
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Type the text characters in the document to test your new emoticon graphic.
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Tips & Warnings
If you create a Word emoticon using a font that does not ship by default with Windows, you must embed that font when you save your document so that it can be viewed on other computers where the font is not installed.
