How to Key a Smiley Face Emoticon
- 1). Launch the application you want to use to compose your text, such as an email or text messaging application, or a Web browser.
- 2). Create a new email message or text message, or log in to your blog or a forum where you want to post a message.
- 3). Type the words of your message that you want to supplement with a smiley face emoticon. Press the space bar, then type a colon ":" followed by a space, followed by a close parenthesis ")" to generate a smiley face emoticon of ": )."
- 4). Type a colon followed by a space and the letter "D" to express a wide-smiling happy face, as in: ": D."