“@:mind blown”🤯! “@:thinking face”🤔!
Am I speaking a new top secret language? No, I’m talking about the new capability to insert emojis in your Google Docs without clicking around in any menus or using any Chrome Extensions.
Built into the Smart Chip menu (that they released a year ago) is the ability to add emojis now! If you type, for example, the “@” symbol and brain you’ll be able to get to the brain emoji from within that smart chip menu and then you’ll be able to select the brain emoji. ðŸ§
Unfortunately, you’ll have to sift through some other results like Google Drive files and Google Maps locations that also involve the word brain. To make it quicker, follow that @ symbol up with a colon :.
That tells the Smart Chips menu to just look at emojis. When you do that you’ll see matching emoji results, and you can click “enter” to accept the one at the top of the list. If you type a word in that has multiple results, like smile or heart, you may have to use the arrow keys or mouse to get to the one you want. You can also click on the right arrow in the top right of the smart chips pane to see the full menu of emojis to search or scroll through.
It won’t enhance your pedagogy but it might make you a little more efficient, or make your docs—and your students’ docs, a little more fun. I’m here for each of those things!
This update is available to ALL Google users and is out now.Â
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