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How to Put Smileys in Web-Based Email

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By Maria Janelli, eHow Contributing Writer

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Sometimes, when writing emails, you want to express more than text can convey. Over the years, this trend led to the creation of emoticons for web writing. An emoticon (emotion + icon) is a series of letters and/or punctuation that creates faces with different expressions. When you compose an email using a web-based application, there are several ways to add an emoticon.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Using Text

Step 1

Use a colon, hyphen and parenthesis to create a smiley face. :-)
Step 2

Use a colon and parenthesis to make a smaller smiley face. :)
Step 3

Use a semicolon, hyphen and parenthesis to make a winking smiley face. ;-)
Step 4

Use a colon, hyphen and D to create a laughing smiley face. :-D
Step 5

Use a colon, hyphen and P to create a smiley face with its tongue sticking out. :-P

Using the Toolbar

Step 1

Many web-based email providers (GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail) include the option to embed graphic emoticons into your email. To get started, compose a new email.
Step 2

Above the body of the email, you will see an editing toolbar. Click the smiley face that appears on the toolbar.
Step 3

A drop-down menu will appear with all of the emoticons that you can embed in your email. Click on an emoticon to embed it into the email.
Step 4

Embed as many emoticons as you like. When you are done writing the email, click send.