How to Access More Gmail Emoticons
Emoticons are a way of expressing emotions in text-based communication using letters and punctuation marks to symbolize faces. The most common of which is the smiley face, represented by a colon and closed parenthesis. Email and instant message applications now often recognize these emoticons and replace them with actual images. Gmail comes with a handful of default emoticons, in square or round faces. Gmail also has an area full of optional add-ons known as "Labs." Within Gmail's Labs is the option to enable a much larger set of emoticons to use in emails.
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Instructions
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Open a web browser and navigate to Gmail.com. Log in to your Gmail account.
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Click "Settings" in the upper right-hand corner of the Gmail window. Click the "Labs" tab of the Gmail Settings screen.
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Locate "Extra Emoji" in the list of labs features. Click "Enable." Click "Save Changes."
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Click "Compose Mail" in the left-hand side bar of the Gmail window. Click "Rich Formatting" within the "Compose Mail" window. Click the smiley face icon to bring up the new list of emoticons for use in your emails.
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