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Inserting Emoji
Start the Special Characters app in either way described earlier, and in the
left of the program window select Emoji. Then select a category of Emoji icon
from the column next to this—People, Nature, Objects, Places, or Symbols.
Finally, select the icon you want from the list of icons, and then click and
drag it to where you want to insert it into your email, document, and so forth.
Special Characters palette via the Edit menu or keyboard shortcut, you can
position the text cursor where you want the Emoji to appear and then double-
click the Emoji in the Special Characters window.
Figure 56—Accessing Emoji characters
Click the cog icon at the top left of the Special Characters window to alter the
size of the icon display—selecting Large will show more detail, but be aware
this will also affect an icon's size when inserted into documents. To alter the
size of an Emoji once it's been inserted into a document, select it and use the
standard font point size adjustment tool, usually available on the formatting
toolbar.
Remember that any Emoji you insert into emails and documents will appear
when opened by other OS X computers (running Lion or Mountain Lion) and
on iPads and iPhones, but they won't appear on Windows or Linux systems
or on Macs running pre-Lion releases of OS X. Instead, users will see a
missing character symbol instead (usually a question mark symbol within a
box).
