Apologies to my editors, who are going to start getting drafts bursting with emoji.
A few months after Google added emoji reactions to Google Docs, the company’s making it easier to include them in your actual document as well. Today, it announced a new shortcut that lets you easily insert an emoji while writing, so you no longer have to pull up your computer’s picker or copy and paste the icons from other places.
The new system gives you several ways to get at emoji, which Google lists in this help document. The simplest is to just type “@[emoji name],” and typing “@emoji” will pull up a searchable emoji picker, like the one on your phone.
Gif: Google
It’s a pretty simple system.
You can also type “@:[emoji name],” which I’ve found to be the fastest and most reliable method. Typing in the…
