Using vivid emojis in Outlook: easily insert, add, manage

Using vivid emojis in Outlook: easily insert, add and manage

Kutools for Outlook

In today's digital communications, especially in business letters and daily email interactions, the use of emojis can make content more appealing and infuse warmth into dull text emails. Although Windows has improved its emoji functionality, limitations persist, such as simplistic designs and the inability to create custom emojis. Kutools for Outlook's Emoji pane fills these gaps, offering a lot of vivid emojis (including 3D emojis) and GIFs. With just a click, you can insert any emojis into the email body. In addition, you can easily add personalized emojis for future use and manage them as needed.

Easily insert vivid emojis in Outlook
Easily add personalized emoji images in Outlook
Manage personalized emoji images in Outlook

Easily insert emojis in Outlook

If this is the first time you install Kutools for Outlook, the Emoji pane will open by default. If you do not see the Emoji pane, go to select Kutools > Pane to open it.

Tip: The Emoji pane is now displayed on the right side of the Preview Pane in Outlook.

To Insert emojis into the email body, you need to do as follows.

Step 1. Create a Message window

Click Home > New Email to open a new Message window;
Or select an email, click Home > Reply or Forward to open a RE: or FW: message window.

Step 2. Insert Emoji into email body

In the composing Message window, the Emoji pane is displayed on the right side. Click on the email body and you can start inserting emojis as follows.

Click to open a certain category.
Tip: There are three default categories in the Emoji pane, each with a different emoji style.
Clicking on any emoji in the emoji list will immediately insert it into the email body where the cursor is located.

Notes:

Emojis within the default categories are not individually editable or removable; instead, the entire category can be removed. To remove a category, you need to select it and then click the Close button or the Delete Category button. In the popping up Kutools for Outlook dialog box, click the OK button.
If you have deleted the default categories and wish to restore them, you need to.
1. Click the drop-down list to expand the menu, and then select Restore Default Emoji.
2. In the opening Default Category dialog box, check the boxes for the default categories you wish to recover and then click OK.
If the default list lacks the emoji you need, you can manually add the emojis you want into the Emoji pane. See the next section for details.

Easily add personalized emoji images in Outlook

If you come across useful emojis in emails or have a collection of emojis you frequently use, the Emoji pane of Kutools for Outlook can help you save them for future use.

Manually add emoji images in an incoming email to Emoji pane

If you find some emojis in the emails you received that are useful to you and want to save for future use, you can do as follows.

Step 1. Create your own emoji category

In the Emoji pane, you need to:

Click the Add Category button.
In the New Category dialog box, type the name of the category and click OK.
A new category (in this case, is the 'personal' category) is now created.

Step 2. Open an email containing the emojis you need to save for future use

In the Mail list, double click to open an email containing the emojis you want to save for future use.

Step 3. Add emoji pictures to the Emoji pane

In the email body, select the emoji you want to save.
Click the Add to Emoji Library button in the new category.
In the opening Add Emoji dialog box, type a name in the Name textbox, choose the category you created in step 1, and then click the Add button. See screenshot:

Result

The selected emoji image has now been added to the new category you specified. If the added emoji image is in gif format, you will see it animated when you hover the cursor over it.

Import a group of emoji images to Emoji pane

If you have collected a set of emoji images, you can easily import them into the Emoji pane for future use. Please do as follows.

Step 1. Create an emoji category for saving these emoji images

In the Emoji pane, you need to:

Click the Add Category button.
In the New Category dialog box, type the name of the category and click OK.
A new category (in this case, is the 'GIF collection' category) is now created.

Step 2. Import the emoji images

In Emoji pane, click the drop-down list to expand the menu.
Select Import Emoji from the menu.
In the Import Emoji dialog box, you need to configure as follows.
3.1) Click the button, you will then see two options:
- File: Selecting this option will open an Open dialog box, allowing you to select individual emoji images by holding the Ctrl or Shift key.
- Folder: Choose this option if you have all your emoji images in one folder and wish to import them all at once. It will open the Browse For Folder dialog where you can select the necessary folder.
3.2) Specify the category in which you want to place the imported emoji images.

3.3) Click the OK button.

3.4) A Kutools for Outlook dialog box will pop up, alerting you about the handling of emojis with the same name. Choose the option you need.

Result

Now, all emoji images in the selected folder are imported into the specified category you have created as shown in the screenshot below.

Manage personalized emoji images in Outlook

After adding your own personalized emoji images, you can easily manage them as needed. Please do as follows.

1. In the Emoji pane, get into the emoji category you have created, click the Edit button.

All emoji images in the selected category are now in editing mode.

2. Select an emoji image, then you can:

Delete : Clicking this button will delete the currently selected emojis.
Move to Front : Clicking this button will move the currently selected emoji to the front of all emoji images.
Move Up : Clicking this button will move the currently selected emoji up.
Move Down : Clicking this button will move the currently selected emoji down.
Move Left : Clicking this button will move the currently selected emoji to the left side.
Move Right : Clicking this button will move the currently selected emoji to the right side.

3. After finishing the management, click the Done button.

Notes:

You are allowed to delete multiple selected emoji images at a time in a personalized created category.
But if you have selected multiple emoji images, the move buttons will be grayed out and unusable.
You can rename an added category by selecting it and clicking the Rename Category button. In the Rename Category dialog box, enter a new name and click the OK button.
To delete a category (including the default category), you need to select it and then click the Close or the Delete Category button. In the popping up Kutools for Outlook dialog box, click the OK button.
To backup a certain emoji category, follow these steps:
Click the drop-down list to expand the menu, and then click Export Emoji.

In the Export Emoji dialog box, click the button to select a destination folder in the Export Path section, and then, choose the desired category from the Export Category drop-down list, at last, and OK.
If you have deleted the default categories and wish to restore them, you need to.
Click the drop-down list to expand the menu, and then select Restore Default Emoji.

In the opening Default Category dialog box, check the boxes for the default categories you wish to recover and then click OK.