JULY 2019 PCWorld 119lucky, and a long, complex cluster
of symbols may end up broken
over two lines by an app. You’ll
need to plan accordingly.
Fortunately, whether they be
emoji or kaomoji or ordinary
symbols, they’re all supported by
Microsoft apps like Word, Edge,
and even Notepad, so you should
be able to type them within any
app you choose. Just make sure
you have the window or app in
focus or active, open the emoji
keyboard, and type away. While
an early implementation of the
emoji keyboard allowed only one character
per instance of the keyboard, that’s a bug
that’s been fixed. Type as many as you want!
Because you’ll be using this keyboard to
type emoji as well as kaomoji, there’s one
change worth noting: the location of the
“swatch” drop-down menu, a key feature in
the emoji keyboard we introduced you to two
years ago (go.pcworld.com/emjk). Instead of
putting it under the “most recently used” tab
of the emoji keyboard—the one you’ll see first
every time you open it—Microsoft has moved
it to the fourth emoji tab on the bottom. (It’s
there in the third tab if you’re viewing this on
something earlier than the May 2019
Update.) Regardless, if you hover over it,
you’ll see it labeled as People. Only emoji
have various color options.
Microsoft could benefit from some
improvement in the overall emoji keyboard
experience: for example, a clearer signal, via
color or delineation, that a search box is
actually present. Asking someone familiar
with kaomoji to add some brief explanatory
text that would display while your cursor
hovered over it would provide a gentler
entrance for those who have never used
them before. A resizable window? Yes,
please. You can’t type kaomoji, then text,
then another kaomoji while the keyboard
remains open. And Microsoft really needs to
fix the bug that causes the emoji keyboard to
move slooooowly across your screen when
you reposition it.
Otherwise, though, it couldn’t be
simpler: the WIN + ; opens the door to a
new way of expressing yourself. Welcome
to kaomoji!.Microsoft’s symbols keyboard, part of the emoji keyboard within
Windows 10, also has a large variety from which to choose.