A couple of months after Google added emoji reactions to Google Docs, the corporate’s making it simpler to incorporate them in your precise doc as effectively. Today, it announced a brand new shortcut that allows you to simply insert an emoji whereas writing, so that you now not have to drag up your laptop’s picker or copy and paste the icons from different locations.

The new system offers you many methods to get at emoji, which Google lists in this help document. The easiest is to simply sort “@[emoji name],” and typing “@emoji” will pull up a searchable emoji picker, just like the one in your telephone.

You may sort “@:[emoji name],” which I’ve discovered to be the quickest and most dependable methodology. Typing within the emoji title straight after the @ image will typically convey up different features or immediate me to say a co-worker, so it’s simply sooner to sort the colon (particularly since I’m accustomed to all the right emoji names due to Slack and Rocket).

Google says this function will begin displaying up for some customers immediately and that it’ll roll out to everybody by the tip of September. And in case you have been questioning, sure — it does appear to help the latest emoji (although clearly not those which can be at present nonetheless within the works).