How to Make Smiley Faces on Email
Everyone does it, from teenagers to grandparents and all ages in between. Email has become the preferred way to stay in touch in today's hectic world. It's easy to personalize emails to friends and family with heartfelt words and sentiments. It's also easy to add emotional touches to emails by inserting smiley face and other expressive icons. Called "emoticons," smiley faces can help illustrate that funny joke or comment.
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Instructions
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Inserting Smiley Face Icons
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Open your email program and click on the "New" or "Compose" button to open a blank email. Popular email programs include Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and Microsoft Outlook.
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Look at the menu bar above the blank area where you type your email message. Click on the yellow face icon with the sunglasses.
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Select the smiley face icon that you want from the drop-down box that appears after clicking on the yellow face with the sunglasses. Click on the smiley face icon that you want and it will be inserted into your email.
Creating Smiley Faces The Old-Fashioned Way
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Hold the "Shift" key and hit the semicolon/colon key. Hit the hyphen key and then the "Shift" the right parenthesis/0 key. Turn your head to the left and you'll see a smiley face :-)
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Hold the "Shift" key and hit the semicolon/colon key. Hit the hyphen key and the "Shift" and "d" key. Turn your head to the left and you'll see a laughing face :-D
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Hit the "8" key, then the hyphen key. Hold "Shift" and hit the right parenthesis/0 key. Turn your head to the left and you will see a smiley face with bright eyes 8-)
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Tips & Warnings
If you use Gmail, you can download a smiley face icon from "Yahoo! Smiley Collection" and insert it into your email.
A browser search will bring up several emoticon download sites that will allow the smiley face icons to be downloaded to your computer for future use.
