Windows 10 sad emoji in the menu. How to open the emoji picker

For many years use emoticons (emoji) on the device including Windows 10 was a sign of patience. Unlike the Mac, with its emoji keyboard shortcut, the Windows PC required grueling searches to find the emoji bar - even for experienced Windows users. Luckily, Latest updates operating system called the long-awaited shortcut that Windows users have been waiting for.

1. Open any program on Windows, which will allow you to enter text. It may be different text documents, a text file, a web browser, or any number of programs where you normally enter text. In our case, this is a notepad.

2. Inside any text entry area in a newly opened program left click to make sure the cursor is active in that window.

3. Switch to English language , after on the keyboard press and hold Windows button , as well as period (.) or semicolon (;) until you see how will the collection of emoji appear.

4. Click on any smiley to add it to the text area. Or you can view tabs to find more emoticons. I advise you to read the topic "".

In the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, a new generation of users of the operating system, accustomed to communicating using text emoticons, emoji and stickers, was offered a new emoji input panel. How to use it is described below.

To call the emoji keyboard, just place the cursor in any input field and use the Win + keyboard shortcut. or Win+;. By default, the user is prompted to select one of the last entered characters.

In order not to look for the desired symbol among hundreds of manually available ones, you can use the search. To do this, after calling the keyboard, it is enough to start entering the name of the emoji in the English keyboard - suitable characters will be automatically suggested on the search tab.

In the same place, on the search tab, the only option for customizing the keyboard is available, which allows you to select the emoji skin tone for a more familiar user.

Emoji in collection new keyboard are grouped under several main topics, text tips are available for each group and each character in it. True, so far only English-speaking. You can switch between groups with the mouse or by pressing the Tab key.

The new emoji keyboard is designed primarily for users classical computers. Owners touch devices can still use the emoji block on the touch keyboard.

With the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft introduced a redesigned emoji picker experience where users can view and select emoji from an ever-growing collection. The emoji access button has long been on the Windows 10 touch keyboard, but when typing on the physical keyboard, there was no obvious way to open the emoji panel. Now he is. Using a key combination Win + . (Windows + Yu) you can open the emoji picker interface. With the same success, you can use the keyboard shortcut Win + ; (Windows + W).

The same emoji panel. Several hundred different emoticons to choose from. There is even a cat ninja.

This system works great, the only trouble is that you can open the panel only on the English keyboard layout. For some absolutely wild and incomprehensible reasons, Microsoft decided that emoji were not needed for other languages. If you use emoji a lot and want to use them on your computer, then this simple guide will tell you how to open the emoji panel on Windows 10 not only in English, but also in other languages.

For reference: Microsoft loves its native EN-US layout very much and dislikes others. Perhaps this is the only way to explain the fact that the keyboard shortcut is available only for the American keyboard. It also comes with an emoji word search feature, so you should be aware that the search won't work with other keyboards.

We tried to activate the emoji panel on the Russian and Ukrainian layouts and we succeeded. It will probably work for you too, but we do not guarantee that this instruction will work with other languages. They say that sometimes it doesn't work in other languages.

One more time for reference: at the time of this writing current version Windows 10 - Fall Creators Update 1709 or 16299. Perhaps in future updates, Microsoft will make the keyboard shortcut open the emoji panel in all languages ​​​​without problems and without having to edit the registry. If this happens, we will update this article accordingly.

How to open the emoji panel on Windows 10

To get started, simply switch your keyboard to English and press Win + . The point must be English (Russian letter Yu). Then turn on the Russian / Ukrainian language and try again. You will notice that the emoji panel no longer responds to key combinations. This misunderstanding is treated very simply. You just need to slightly change the registry of the operating system. It's sad, but true: many of the shortcomings of Windows still need to be finished with your own hands.

Warning: we advise all our readers, regardless of the level of knowledge or experience, to do before digging into the registry of the operating system. Creating a restore point will help you avoid problems if something goes wrong and you need to return the registry to a previous state. Also remember that you are solely responsible for your computer.

For reference: to edit the registry, you need Account with Administrator rights or a password from such.

Adding this key to the registry will not harm your computer or interfere with other programs. At least it shouldn't, if you did everything right. Still, if you want to return the default value, just go to the registry editor, go to the path above and delete the key EnableExpressiveInputShellHotkey. Alternatively, you can simply change its value from zero to one or restore the previously created restore point.

Where to find emoji on Windows 10 touch keyboard

Everything is much simpler here. Unlike the physical keyboard, the button to open the emoji collection is available in all localizations. You need to open the on-screen (touch keyboard) and click on the button with a smiley next to the left Ctrl. If you are using a compact (small) keyboard, then the emoji button will be located to the left of the language switch button.

Emoji button on full size touch keyboard.

Emoji button on a compact (one-handed) keyboard.

After that, you can select the emoticon you want. On the screen keyboard turns on automatically in tablet mode when you click on the text box. If you need to force open the keyboard, and there is no corresponding button on the right side of the taskbar, then right-click on the taskbar and select Show touch keyboard button. After that, to the left of language bar the on-screen keyboard icon will be displayed. Everything is extremely simple.

Almost everyone has a smartphone, tablet or other gadget through which he communicates with friends and relatives. For example, I have an iPhone 5. And certainly everyone has seen emoticons in the keyboard of such devices, but few people know that these emoticons (the vast majority of them) are a generally accepted icon font standard called Emoji.

We all know how to send such emoticons from gadgets, and in this article I will show you how to use the built-in Emoji emoticons in Windows 8.1. Here they are, for example: 😎 😜 🔪 🌄 ✔. Yes, yes, Windows has them by default, you just need to learn how to use them.

Having mastered this method, you can use Emoji anywhere: in letters, in instant messengers, on VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter, etc. And do it all from your laptop or desktop PC.

Do you think emoticons are stupid? But did you know that the widespread use of emoticons was first introduced by such Internet giant as Twitter. It was he who became the first to recognize emoticon symbols in browsers and replace them with the corresponding pictures so that the square looks like this: 😍. Although, of course, emoticons are not always appropriate, for example, it would be strange if something like this is added in an official letter (by mail): 👍…

You can use emoticons everywhere and you can find them not just fun, but useful. For example, you can capture the attention of readers if you choose the right emoticon and add it to the title of the article. For example, something themed: ✈ 🚩 🚲 ⛽ 🚌 🚑 👟 👙 💻

How to use Emoji in Windows 10

Versions 8 and 10 are very similar, so you can enable the on-screen keyboard in Windows 10 just like in 8-ke. Let me remind you that it is this keyboard that allows you to insert Emoji emoticons.

Right-click on the taskbar and check the box next to "show on-screen keyboard":

Next to the clock, you will have an additional keyboard button 💻, by clicking on it, the on-screen keyboard will appear, then click the smiley icon in the bottom row and use Emoji to the fullest, something like this: 🔇🔈🔉🔊

Emoji Keyboard

You can also open the emoji keyboard right away. To do this, press the key combination:

Windows + ; or Windows + .

As a result, the following keyboard should appear:

If at the time of pressing WIN+. the cursor is in the text input field (textarea), then the emoji keyboard will appear right in front of the cursor:

How to use Emoji in Windows 8

Right-click on the taskbar, point to "Toolbar" and check the box next to Keyboard:

You have a keyboard, by clicking on it you will see Virtual keyboard at the bottom of the screen:

Now click on the smiley button:

Here it is important to pay attention to the tabs where different types emoticons and on the arrows (left, right), with which you can scroll the page of the emoticon types tab (if all the emoticons of the tab do not fit).

In addition, you need to understand that these are icons and they can be displayed differently depending on the browser or even the site. For example, in Internet Explorer such icons are colored, in Chrome under the color of the font. Therefore, you should not expect that the icon you choose will look exactly the same, but its meaning will, of course, remain.

More about Emoji

Emoji (from Japanese 絵 - picture and 文字 - sign, symbol; Japanese pron.) - the language of ideograms and emoticons, for electronic messages. This language, where pictures are used instead of words, originated in Japan. Some emoji characters have special meaning in Japanese culture: for example, a white flower denoting "well-done homework".

Emoji icons are not a character code for an icon, as is customary in web applications, but an icon-picture itself, exactly the same as any letter that we write, for example, "I".

Although emoji was originally only available in Japan, some of its character sets have been incorporated into Unicode. This made it possible to use them in other countries. As a result, some smartphones with operating system Windows phone and the iPhone was allowed access to characters. Since April 2009, Emoji has also appeared in the Gmail mail service. Apple Mac OS X supports emoji, since version 10.7 ( apple font color emoji). Today, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Hangouts and VKontakte and other popular messaging apps also allow you to use emoji sets. Google added emoji support to Google Keyboard in November 2013 in all android versions(starting with Android 4.4).

The appearance of the first computer emoticons dates back to the early eighties, but they gained worldwide popularity only almost two decades later, when the company Apple added support for emoticons in iPhone and macOS . example Apple soon followed Windows and Android, so that the use of text and graphics when communicating "transmitters of emotions" became common.

Modern emoticons are implemented mostly based on the font Unicode. They are supported by almost all applications that provide text input, including Microsoft Word and even ordinary Notebook, but you must use the touch keyboard to enter them. Starting from assembly Windows 10 16215, Microsoft has made it easier to find and type emoticons, and from now on, you can enter them using an improved panel emoji called by pressing "hot" keys on a physical keyboard.

To use the panel emoji in Windows 10 Redstone 3, open any application (browser, messenger, Notepad, etc.) , in which you want to insert an emoticon and press the key combination Win + dot (Win + . or Win + ;). To select an emoticon, use the mouse or arrow keys, to insert it, press enter.

To switch to another emoji category, press Tab , to return to the original category, press Shift + Tab . The panel is exited by pressing Esc . And the last. So far, calling the panel emoji possible only with the English layout, in the release Windows versions 10 is still subject to change.