{"id":2069,"date":"2024-01-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:45:10","slug":"digitip-18-express-yourself-with-emojis-with-the-hidden-keyboard-shortcut-%f0%9f%a5%b3%f0%9f%a4%a9%f0%9f%92%96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/2024\/01\/23\/digitip-18-express-yourself-with-emojis-with-the-hidden-keyboard-shortcut-%f0%9f%a5%b3%f0%9f%a4%a9%f0%9f%92%96\/","title":{"rendered":"DigiTip 18 &#8211; Express yourself with Emojis with the hidden keyboard shortcut \ud83e\udd73\ud83e\udd29\ud83d\udc96"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"241\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2023\/08\/digitips-banner_61877145-2-1024x241.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2023\/08\/digitips-banner_61877145-2-1024x241.png 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2023\/08\/digitips-banner_61877145-2-300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2023\/08\/digitips-banner_61877145-2-768x181.png 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2023\/08\/digitips-banner_61877145-2-1536x362.png 1536w, https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2023\/08\/digitips-banner_61877145-2-2048x482.png 2048w, https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2023\/08\/digitips-banner_61877145-2-712x168.png 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emojis have become an essential part of how we communicate, and they can be fantastic for expressing our emotions with just a single character \ud83e\udd70\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude44\ud83e\udd2f\ud83d\ude34&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of us will be more familiar with using emojis on our mobile phones \ud83d\udcf1, but there will be times when we\u2019ll want to include emojis when using our laptops or computers \ud83d\udcbb. Instead of googling for the emoji you need, why not access it directly from your keyboard!?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On both Windows and Mac, you can access your emoji keyboard in seconds by selecting:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Windows \u2013 <\/strong><em>Windows Key <\/em>+ \u201c.\u201d (period button\/full stop)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mac \u2013 <\/strong><em>Command<\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><em>Key <\/em>+ <em>Control <\/em>+ <em>Spacebar<\/em>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video below to see how this shortcut works on a Windows device.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2023\/11\/TipDigi-18-_-DigiTip-18.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(339deg,rgb(254,205,165) 0%,rgb(254,45,45) 17%,rgb(107,0,62) 37%,rgb(171,85,85) 91%);font-size:18px\">To follow our DigiTips,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog<\/a>. Or alternatively, you can&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/category\/digitips\/\" target=\"_blank\">bookmark this webpage<\/a>, where a new DigiTip will be added each week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emojis have become an essential part of how we communicate, and they can be fantastic for expressing our emotions with just a single character \ud83e\udd70\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude44\ud83e\udd2f\ud83d\ude34&nbsp; Most of us will be more familiar with using emojis on our mobile phones \ud83d\udcf1, but there will be times when we\u2019ll want to include emojis when using our laptops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,205],"tags":[215,480,470],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-communication-collaboration-and-participation-en","category-digitips","tag-tipiaudigipa-digitipsau-en","tag-fun","tag-shortcuts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}