Registry locationsHKCUSoftwareMicrosoftCommunicator ShowEmoticonsAllowed registry values 0 – Emoticons are sent as text 1 – Emoticons are sent as graphicsRegistry value typeREGDWORDDefault setting1: Emoticons are shown in instant messagesWhere would the world be without emoticons? Back in the dark ages of computing, the only way to add a 'smiley face' to an instant message would be to use the typewritten equivalent, like so:🙂Thank goodness that’s no longer the case, at least not with Microsoft Lync. Instead, with Microsoft Lync you can add a real smiley face to your instant messages:Progress is truly a wonderful thing, isn’t it? Historical note.
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The first known use of the classic smiley face emoticon: 🙂? That dates all the way back to 1982 and the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. (As if anyone other than a computer science major at Carnegie Mellon University could have come up with the smiley face emoticon.)In Microsoft Lync you can enable the use of emoticons by checking the Show emoticons in instant messages checkbox:Once you do that, you can then insert any Lync emoticon into your instant messages and have that emoticon be sent as a graphic. Likewise, you can type an emoticon character equivalent and Lync will automatically convert that typewritten value to a graphic.
Hidden Skype Codes Emoticons v. 1.Click on emoji 2.Press the button 'Cut to Clipboard' and paste to chat box. Lync 2013 hidden emoticons in Title/Summary. Update for Microsoft Lync 2013 (KB2760512) 32-Bit Edition. Emoticon Assistant is a standalone application that can be used as an add-on for Yahoo Messenger that puts the hidden emoticons at your fingertips, and makes it easy to choose between standard and hidden emoticons.
For example, suppose you type the following into an instant message:8- Do that, and Lync will convert that text to the following emoticon when the message is sent.