How to insert emoji in Outlook

In this digital world email is the best-preferred way to communicate and an email is not if you are not using an emoji. An emoji can express your feeling a lot. It gives a human touch feel to your message. Like other email clients, Outlook also offers to insert emojis. Do you know how to insert emoji in Outlook? If you do not, this article will show you how to do that in the easiest way. Let’s get started.

A little bit about emoji

An emoji is a small picture or image which can be static or animated that is embedded in a text message to express human feelings. The word emoji came from two Japanese words e (picture) and moji (character). That is when a character representing a picture is called emoji.

Shigetaka Kurita is the person who created the first emoji inspired by the weather forecast symbols. Further, it became more popular on the internet over the world.

Learn More: How to add picture to Outlook email

Insert emoji in Outlook desktop

Like other platforms Microsoft Outlook supports emojis. I will discuss the process of using emojis on Windows 10 and Windows 11 as most computers are using these two operating systems nowadays. If you are using Microsoft Outlook 2007, no problem this will work.

Windows 11 platform

• Open Microsoft Outlook.
• Open a new email. Go to the Home tab, and click New Email.
• Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N to open a new email.
• Keep your cursor where you want to insert emoji in Outlook.
• To insert emojis in Outlook press Windows+. on your keyboard.

There are varieties of emojis available in windows 11. You can select them by exploring or if you want to search, there is a search button instead. On the top, there are a few options that you can miss. Emoji, Gif, Kaomoji, and symbols. You can select and explore. The different tabs of emojis will help you to find your desired emojis.

Two more buttons that may also help you a lot. The most recently used and the Clipboard.

Most recently used

The most recently used button will help you to reuse recently used emojis again. You do not need to search again for it.

Clipboard

The clipboard is a fantastic feature, which I have not seen anywhere. This feature helps you to use any image in the clipboard to use instead of emoji.

Windows 10 platform

• Open Microsoft Outlook.
• Open a new email. Go to the Home tab, and click New Email.
• Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N to open a new email.
• Keep your cursor where you want to insert emoji in Outlook.
• To insert emojis in Outlook press Windows+. on your keyboard.
• Alternatively, you can press Windows+; on your keyboard.

In Windows 10 operating system, there is only emojis, kaomoji, and symbols are available. You will not find any other buttons. Still, you have a search button to search and different emojis are categorized in different tabs. You will find it at the bottom.

An alternative way to insert emojis in Outlook Desktop

From Online

There are some alternative ways to insert emojis in the Outlook desktop application. Follow the steps below.

• Open Microsoft Outlook.
• Open a new email. Go to the Home tab, and click New Email.
• Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N to open a new email.
• Go to the Insert tab, click the Picture button and select Online Pictures.

• A new window will appear, type emoji and press Enter to search on the web.

You can avail varieties of emojis from the web and insert them in Outlook. Even you can filter your search to Creative Common to avoid copyright claims. You can adjust emoji size with the help of your mouse cursor.

From Symbol

You can also add emoji from the symbol option. It is not that popular but still, this is an option.

• Open Microsoft Outlook.
• Open a new email. Go to the Home tab, and click New Email.
• Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N to open a new email.
• Go to the Insert tab, click the Symbol button and select More Symbols.
• Select Segoe UI Emoji from the font select your emoji from there and click the Insert button to insert it in your email body.

From here, you may find some emojis that are not color, it is black and white.

Copy emoji from another platform

It is another way to insert emojis in Outlook that you can use. You copy emojis from another platform like Facebook messenger and paste them on your email body. It will also work.

If you could not find the emoji that you are looking for, just copy and paste it here. I will say it is one of the best way to insert emojis in outlook.

Insert emoji in Outlook mobile app

Not only in Outlook desktop app you can insert emojis in Outlook mobile app. Here is the procedure

• Open Outlook mobile application.
• Tap on New email to start a new email message. Tap the place where want to insert the emoji.
• Tap the smiley face icon on your keyboard.

Insert emoji in Outlook web

If you are a user of Outlook.com email, Outlook webmail service also offers to insert emojis in the email body. On the bottom part of email composer, you will find it. See the screenshot below.

Once you click the emoji icon, a long list of emojis will appear on the right. See the screenshot below.

Like the Outlook desktop application, you can search for your desired emojis here. Emojis are also categorized and placed in different tabs as well.

Dear readers, I have described all possible ways to insert emoji in Outlook. If you have any other way to add emoji in Outlook please let me know. You can post comments below. I will definitely add your process. I hope, the article regarding how to insert emoji in Outlook will be helpful to you. Thank you very much for being with us.