Alt Code Shortcuts for Emoji, Smileys and Emoticons – WebNots (2024)

Emojis are graphical representation of symbols and human faces in a colorful text format. Unicode consortium, a non-profit organization defines the technical specification and releases new emojis to help all devices can support these beautiful characters. The latest version has 1300 emojis including wide variety of symbols other than smiley faces or emoticons. Nowadays, it is very common to use emojis on Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype chats, Outlook emails and SMS messages. Do you know it is very easy to insert these emojis in Microsoft Office documents, emails and chats? Yes, it is simply possible using alt code shortcuts.

Alt Code Shortcuts for Emojis

Below is the table of alt code shortcuts to insert emojis, smileys and emotions. The complete emojis include 1000+ symbols, objects, food, animals, natural and travel categories. You can also refer the complete list of alt key shortcuts for 650+ symbolsfor general symbols like check mark or download emoji shortcuts in a printable PDF format for offline reference.

Since the list is very long, type the emoji name in search box to find relevant results. For example, type “face” to filter all face related emojis. Alternatively, paste the symbol like 🎧 to filter headphone emoji.

Methods of Using Emoji

You can use the alt key shortcuts in the first column of the above table on Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and any other Office documents. Hold one of the alt keys on your keyboard and press the numbers on your number pad. Remember these shortcuts will only work on the keyboard with number pad.

For example, pressing alt and 128110 keys will produce the police officer emoji like 👮.

Examples of Emoji

Below are some of the examples, you can use emoji symbols in Outlook or Skype chat. Instead of typing a long sentence, a single emoji can express your thoughts more clearly.

• I don’t like or thumbs down – 👎
• Eating food – 🍴🍚
• Brainy guy or nerd – 🤓
• Feeling sleepy – 😴

However, remember to use the emoji symbols sensibly when chatting with unknown persons. They could understand the meaning completely different.

Insert Emojis in Windows 10

Alt code shortcuts will work only on the keyboards with extended number pad. Most of the recent laptops don’t have separate number pad. In this case, you have to use additional keyboard accessory for this purpose which is not convenient and feasible for all of us. Microsoft has solved this problem in Windows 10 by introducing an emoji keyboard. You can press “Windows + Semi-colon” or “Windows + Dot” keys on any documents like Excel, Word or PowerPoint to open the emoji keyboard. Choose your favorite symbol and insert in the document. This will also work on messengers like Skype.

Emoji picker has the following categories of symbols – recently used, smiley faces & animals, people, celebration & objects, food & plants, transportation & places and hearts & other symbols. If you can’t find the emoji symbol, start typing on the document or click “Search” and type. Windows will filter the emoji if it is available in the picker. For example, type heart to find all heart related emojis.

Insert Emoji in Mac

Similar to Windows 10, macOS also offers a quick emoji keyboard to insert smileys and emotions. You can use this in documents like Pages, Numbers and Keynote.

Insert Emoji in iOS

Apple’s iOS devices like iPhone and iPad has a Emoji keyboard to insert the emotions and smileys in all text content. When you are in the text box, press the globe key on your keyboard and choose “Emoji” option.

This will show thousands of emoji symbols and choose your favorite to insert.

The latest iOS devices with Face ID recognition offers new emoji pattern called animoji. You can insert these animojis in Messages app and FaceTime.

Insert Emoji in Android

Similar to iOS, Android smartphones also have a default emoji keyboard for searching and inserting symbols.

Download Smileys Shortcuts Reference

If you prefer to have the shortcuts in image format, download the emoji shortcuts image. Right click on the image save to your computer for offline reference. This image contains popular and frequently used smiley emoji list along with hexadecimal Alt + x shortcuts which you can use on Microsoft Word documents.