To get these simple but cool emoticons/emoji/smilies or whatever you want to call them you will need the Segoe UI Semibold font that comes with Windows 7 (possibly Vista too?).
In Microsoft Word, click the Insert tab on the ribbon. On the far left click the Symbol button followed by the More Symbols option
Make sure the font selected is Segoe UI Semibold and the subset is Extended Characters – Plane 1. From there you will see all of the available faces.
These are very similar to what you get when you send an SMS text message in Windows Phone 7 and are a great find to create metro graphics and icons for your apps
Tried on two different Windows 7 images (32 bit pro & ultimate) boxes, and this plane isn’t on Segoe UI Semibold, but it is there the Windows 8 version. Fall back to Symbola 😓
Thank you!
This is the first time I hear of Symbola. It’s great, has lots of symbols and it’s free for all uses.
The official site for Symbola is http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2729094
An update for the Segoe UI symbol font in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 is available
“This article introduces an update to the Segoe UI symbol font in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. This update adds support for emoji characters and some control glyphs that are included in Windows 8 and in Windows Server 2012.
Note: Emoji characters come from emoji-capable platforms and devices. The platforms or devices enable users to easily insert emoji characters into documents, email messages, or chat conversations by using an emoji picker feature or an emoji palette feature. In Windows 8 or in Windows Server 2012, these characters are inserted by using the on-screen keyboard.”
After this update (didn’t try before it) I found the emoji only in “Segoe UI Symbol” font using BabelMap (Unicode Character Map for Windows), free from
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
In BabelMap you can choose “Emoticons” from “Select Unicode Block” area or enter 1F601 in “Go to Code Point”.
The “Character Map” app that is included in Windows can’t display characters above code FFFF.