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another way around emoticons

Submitted by bflatbush on March 11, 2010 to Annoyance

Cartoon emoticons replacing typed emoticons automatically on windows live mail.

I found putting an extra space in between the colon and parenthesis will not convert to the irritating emoticon on windows live mail. So instead of :) try : ). It still looks good! I'd still like Windows mail to give us the option of turning off these cartoons which I will never use in my email.

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jvd897 wrote on March 11, 2010, 11:18pm

Note, however, that you can just hit Undo (Ctrl+Z) to turn the emoticon back into a plain text one.

But this isn't really discoverable, so you're right, this would be a good thing to have in the options menu, for example, a checkbox for "Use plain text for emoticons", turned off by default.

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Comment edited on March 12, 2010, 12:20am

pmbAustin wrote on March 17, 2010, 1:16am

Or allow backspace to 'undo' the transformation into an emoticon.... just like Word.

But yes, an option is required. Give the user control.

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