I'd like to add a Smiley Face Emoticon to my Pages document. So far I've clicked on Character Viewer and found Smiley's under Emoji, but when I double click a Smiley the cursor advances forward, but no Smiley Face in my document. What am I missing? I've also found that some of the other symbols are not appearing like the Smiley Faces.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 17" display, Apple TV, iPhone 4
For some reason Apple has not yet updated Pages to support the special Apple Color Emoji font. The best you can do is a black and white font like Symbola.
Are you referring to the Symbol font? I didn't see Symbola. Once I find the font how do I make the Smiley Face?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Symbols is a font you have to locate on the internet (try google) and install. Then you input what you want I the same way as for the color emoji font.
Okay, I've not installed fonts in many years. Can you walk me through the process of what font I'm looking for and how to install it in pages.
Thanks,
Do you really have a problem typing the words "symbola font" in the google search box?
Ok, I installed "symbola font" how do I make Smiley's with this font? Thanks,
wcruse wrote:
Ok, I installed "symbola font" how do I make Smiley's with this font? Thanks,
The same way you described trying to make one in your first post, but with the font in Pages set to Symbola. All we are doing is switching from a font that doesn't work in Pages to a font that should work.
Here's what I've done: 1. Set Pages font to Symbola. 2. Opened Character Viewer. 3. Clicked on Smiley in Emoji (because I don't see smiley faces anywhere else). The font in Pages switches back to Emoji and no Smiley is produced on the page. What am I doing wrong? Sorry, I'm a novice at using Pages and Character Viewer.
Thanks for your help.
Just select the empty space and set the font back to symbola.
I did what you instructed and nothing happened. Just another blank space.
That's odd, works fine for me. Also works if I double click on the black/white version in the Font Variation section of Character Viewer.
So I opened my character viewer, went over to Emoji, then clicked on People, then went through each smiley till I found the black/white ones (4th Smiley, top row). And I found this ☺
Thanks for your help, I finally figured where the Smiley's for Pages and apps are located.
wcruse wrote:
So I opened my character viewer, went over to Emoji, then clicked on People, then went through each smiley till I found the black/white ones (4th Smiley, top row). And I found this ☺
When I do this, I find black/white ones starting with the very first smiley in the top row, so I suspect there is something not working right on your system.
Hmm...could be something wrong, but that's another discussion thread. I'm happy I finally found something that works. So I'm good for now. Thanks for your help.
Maybe this belongs to the "other discussion thread" you mentioned, but I'm having similar problems to the user above.
I was quite happily using an older version of Pages until yesterday when I upgraded my iMac OS from Snow Leopard to Yosemite. The upgrade also updated my Mac apps, including Pages, which is the one I use the most. The previous Insert > Special Characters menu item now reads Insert > Emoji & Symbols and opens this:
However, when I try to insert one of the above emojis, I get the same result as the previous user (that is, just a blank space). After reading this thread, I googled, downloaded, and installed Symbola font and it now appears in the Font dropdown list in Pages. I notice that every time I double-click an emoji to insert, the font in my Pages doc is "AppleColorEmoji" and yet still, nothing is inserted. As you suggested above, I can select the blank space and change the font from AppleColorEmoji to Symbola, at which time the blank space is replaced by a black & white emoji. IMHO this is a very klunky way to use "emojis". I prefer the old way of inserting special characters. And I don't understand why I have a font called "AppleColorEmoji" when it apparently doesn't work.
But in the hopes that everything is fine and I'm just unclear on a concept, I'm throwing myself on your mercy...
Thank you in advance for any help.
~~Gay Alson
Character Viewer - Emoji not working
