{"id":31261,"date":"2025-12-15T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=31261"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:51:18","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%85lets-add-some-christmas-magic-to-your-holiday-emails%f0%9f%8e%84%e2%9d%84%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/%f0%9f%8e%85lets-add-some-christmas-magic-to-your-holiday-emails%f0%9f%8e%84%e2%9d%84%ef%b8%8f\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf85Let&#8217;s\u00a0Add Some Christmas Magic to Your Holiday Emails\ud83c\udf84\u2744\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style3\" style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>\ud83c\udf85Let&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"auto-style3\" style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Add Some Christmas Magic to Your Holiday Emails\ud83c\udf84\u2744\ufe0f<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These simple tips will help you add some Christmas fun to your emails this Holiday season. You can do everything shown in this article with the Emoji panel that comes with Windows 11. If you&#8217;re using Windows 10, you&#8217;ll have more limited options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Who doesn&#8217;t like a little Christmas magic? Let&#8217;s make your holiday emails a little bit more magical and attention-grabbing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/BvbA-mkEJ2MAAAAC\/kiki-kikicat.gif\" alt=\"Merry Christmas\" width=\"498\" height=\"498\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">First, please note that this won\u2019t work with all email programs or social media platforms. But this tip does work in most webmail apps, including Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook.com, and Yahoo Mail. It also works in OE Classic. Thunderbird, MS Outlook (current version), the Windows 10 and 11 Mail app, and the version of Outlook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Windows Emoji Pad (as we call it \u2013 others call it the Emoji Panel) is an oft-forgotten feature of Windows 10 and 11.\u00a0 Windows 11\u2019s Emoji Pad (and to some extent Windows 10\u2019s) allows you to easily add Holiday Magic to your emails (and social media posts on some platforms) with just a couple of clicks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This post was written for Windows 11, and the Windows 11 Emoji Pad \u2014 the pictures of the Emoji Pad shown here are from Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>How to open the Emoji Pad<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are two easy ways to open the Emoji Pad in Windows 11 and 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hold down the Windows key and tap the . (period) key.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 or\u2014<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hold down the Windows key and tap the ; (semi-colon) key.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When the Emoji pad opens, it opens to the Emoji section. Right below the Emoji section, you\u2019ll see the GIF section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/emojipad.png\" alt=\"Windows 11 Emoji Pad - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"579\" height=\"660\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Note: You can search all sections of the Emoji pad by typing your search term in the Search box. Since we\u2019re in the Christmas season now, we typed in Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/emojipad1.png\" alt=\"Windows 11 Emoji Pad - Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Let&#8217;s add some Christmas magic to your holiday emails. It&#8217;s easy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31263 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChristmasChristmasTreeGIF.gif\" alt=\"Merry Christmas!\" width=\"386\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Windows 11 Emoji Pad has a limited number of Christmas emojis, but a nice selection of animated Christmas GIFs. We will use the emoji to add some magic to the subject line and save the gifs for the message body \u2013 but you can use them any way you wish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">First, you can add an emoji from the Emoji Pad to the subject line by clicking in the subject line and then clicking the emoji you want to use in the Emoji Pad. Here we used a Santa and a Christmas tree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/holidayemoji.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve \" width=\"600\" height=\"54\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Then, go ahead and type your message. You can add an animated GIF anywhere in the message body by opening the Emjoi Pad, scrolling down to the GIFS section, and clicking on the GIF you want to add. There are a lot of gifs, but you\u2019ll have to type CHRISTMAS in the search box to see them all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/holidayemoji1c.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve \" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When your lucky recipient receives your email, they\u2019ll see your cheery emoji in the subject line, your good wishes, and the animated gif in the body of the email\u2026 see?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can use this tip in most email programs as well as in Gmail, Outlook.com, and Hotmail\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This screenshot is from the composition window in Gmail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/holidayemoji2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve \" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And this screenshot is from Hotmail\/Outlook.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/holidayemoji3.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve \" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Windows Emoji pad can help you add some Christmas fun and magic to your holiday emails!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29492 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MerryChristmasGIF.gif\" alt=\"Merry Christmas!\" width=\"498\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/lZ1yqa5r74cAAAAC\/adventure-time.gif\" alt=\"MERRY CHRISTMAS!\" width=\"498\" height=\"392\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">\ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udf84<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Happy Holidays!<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Merry Christmas!<\/span><\/strong>\ud83c\udf84\u2744\ufe0f\ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udf84<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; \ud83c\udf85Let&#8217;s\u00a0Add Some Christmas Magic to Your Holiday Emails\ud83c\udf84\u2744\ufe0f These simple tips will help you add some Christmas fun to your emails this Holiday season. 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