2009 and this still hasn't been made user friendly - come on Microsoft, how
hard is it to add an option to the "Compose" options for turning off
automatic emoticons and letting me use the drop down if I really want them?
It's embarrassing to get reply emails where the emoticon has been converted
to the text "smiley emoticon", or whatever, and realize just how ugly my
email looked to the receiver.


"Baffin" wrote:

> > you thinking app wide, or per note?

>
> Myself, I'd suppress them app-wide, because I find the appearance of the WLM
> emoticons to be too eye-catching -- I'd prefer if they blended in better with
> the text. They are like spice for food: too much ruins the dish. (Maybe
> they should be black-and-white, and smalle, or maybe ... text characters.)
>
> But then I'm not a sub-teenager, and I realize WLM has to be designed for
> everyone. Options are the usual solution, but options are costly and can get
> out of hand.
>
> Though it'd probably annoy a new user in the 'pre-commit' stage, ctrl-z
> works for me as a committed user, now that I know about it (maybe the
> emoticon substitution, when it operates, should pop open a info box saying
> 'use ctl-z if you don't want this substitution' with 'select here to suppress
> this message' to inform users).
>
> I imagine UI designers at MS can figure something out.

Use Plain text to compose your email to prevent the emoticons.

If composing in Html and including an emoticon, the recipient's configuration is responsible for viewing the emoticon

(ie. if viewing in plain text they will not see your included emoticons; nor will the emoticon be present in their reply)


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...winston
ms-mvp mail

"hiveman" <hiveman@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:EB3CC78E-9C03-442B-9620-B19E2C19C752@xxxxxx

> 2009 and this still hasn't been made user friendly - come on Microsoft, how
> hard is it to add an option to the "Compose" options for turning off
> automatic emoticons and letting me use the drop down if I really want them?
> It's embarrassing to get reply emails where the emoticon has been converted
> to the text "smiley emoticon", or whatever, and realize just how ugly my
> email looked to the receiver.
>
>
> "Baffin" wrote:
>

>> > you thinking app wide, or per note?

>>
>> Myself, I'd suppress them app-wide, because I find the appearance of the WLM
>> emoticons to be too eye-catching -- I'd prefer if they blended in better with
>> the text. They are like spice for food: too much ruins the dish. (Maybe
>> they should be black-and-white, and smalle, or maybe ... text characters.)
>>
>> But then I'm not a sub-teenager, and I realize WLM has to be designed for
>> everyone. Options are the usual solution, but options are costly and can get
>> out of hand.
>>
>> Though it'd probably annoy a new user in the 'pre-commit' stage, ctrl-z
>> works for me as a committed user, now that I know about it (maybe the
>> emoticon substitution, when it operates, should pop open a info box saying
>> 'use ctl-z if you don't want this substitution' with 'select here to suppress
>> this message' to inform users).
>>
>> I imagine UI designers at MS can figure something out.

YES. I'm not 16.

"hiveman" wrote:

> 2009 and this still hasn't been made user friendly - come on Microsoft, how
> hard is it to add an option to the "Compose" options for turning off
> automatic emoticons and letting me use the drop down if I really want them?
> It's embarrassing to get reply emails where the emoticon has been converted
> to the text "smiley emoticon", or whatever, and realize just how ugly my
> email looked to the receiver.
>
>
> "Baffin" wrote:
>

> > > you thinking app wide, or per note?

> >
> > Myself, I'd suppress them app-wide, because I find the appearance of the WLM
> > emoticons to be too eye-catching -- I'd prefer if they blended in better with
> > the text. They are like spice for food: too much ruins the dish. (Maybe
> > they should be black-and-white, and smalle, or maybe ... text characters.)
> >
> > But then I'm not a sub-teenager, and I realize WLM has to be designed for
> > everyone. Options are the usual solution, but options are costly and can get
> > out of hand.
> >
> > Though it'd probably annoy a new user in the 'pre-commit' stage, ctrl-z
> > works for me as a committed user, now that I know about it (maybe the
> > emoticon substitution, when it operates, should pop open a info box saying
> > 'use ctl-z if you don't want this substitution' with 'select here to suppress
> > this message' to inform users).
> >
> > I imagine UI designers at MS can figure something out.

"...winston" wrote:

> Use Plain text to compose your email to prevent the emoticons.

?? Cripes !!
Until I read the solution to this question I used to CONVERT my very nicley
fomatted eMail into PLAIN TEXT just to get rid of this PITA.

When done - I'd then CONVERT it back to RTF format - -
- BUT if your eMail contains any other formatting then you have to redo
that (B Italics etc) that's expected, BUT BUT
Just try doing that with bulleted lists.
I guarantee that it wont work. - You won't be able to add Bulleted lists to
a selection of your text.

IMHO this suggestions smells of DOO DOO and smacks of a MS cop out

Sledgehammers and Nuts are Us
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> If composing in Html and including an emoticon, the recipient's configuration is responsible for viewing the emoticon
>
> (ie. if viewing in plain text they will not see your included emoticons; nor will the emoticon be present in their reply)
>
>
> --
> ...winston
> ms-mvp mail
>
> "hiveman" <hiveman@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:EB3CC78E-9C03-442B-9620-B19E2C19C752@xxxxxx

> > 2009 and this still hasn't been made user friendly - come on Microsoft, how
> > hard is it to add an option to the "Compose" options for turning off
> > automatic emoticons and letting me use the drop down if I really want them?
> > It's embarrassing to get reply emails where the emoticon has been converted
> > to the text "smiley emoticon", or whatever, and realize just how ugly my
> > email looked to the receiver.
> >
> >
> > "Baffin" wrote:
> >

> >> > you thinking app wide, or per note?
> >>
> >> Myself, I'd suppress them app-wide, because I find the appearance of the WLM
> >> emoticons to be too eye-catching -- I'd prefer if they blended in better with
> >> the text. They are like spice for food: too much ruins the dish. (Maybe
> >> they should be black-and-white, and smalle, or maybe ... text characters.)
> >>
> >> But then I'm not a sub-teenager, and I realize WLM has to be designed for
> >> everyone. Options are the usual solution, but options are costly and can get
> >> out of hand.
> >>
> >> Though it'd probably annoy a new user in the 'pre-commit' stage, ctrl-z
> >> works for me as a committed user, now that I know about it (maybe the
> >> emoticon substitution, when it operates, should pop open a info box saying
> >> 'use ctl-z if you don't want this substitution' with 'select here to suppress
> >> this message' to inform users).
> >>
> >> I imagine UI designers at MS can figure something out.

>