Someone called emoticons "the great invention of mankind", and this is not an exaggeration. We can no longer imagine communicating on Skype without these cheerful, gloomy, sad, affable, scared, surprised, thoughtful and God knows what, but always evoke a smile, pretty and attractive faces, each of which can convey a thought, emotion or the mood is sometimes better than "a dozen", or even 1000 words.
But an ingenious messenger, used to surprise its users with new chips and surprises in each update, just picked up some emoticons and "kept secret", and for the purpose of "conspiracy" gave them the name - hidden Skype emoticons.
Skype emoticon collection
Everyone knows that the necessary emoticon is selected from the palette in the message window, but that for someone it may become a combination of certain keys on the keyboard or a special word in parentheses that appear to the right of the name of faces and figures when you mouse over revelation.
The collection of emoticons visible in the Skype menu is represented by the following sets: Emoticons (familiar faces with different emotions), People and objects (animated little men and animals), Special occasions (Year of the Monkey, Kurban Bayram, Halloween, etc.). . d.) and "Recent" (Freshly Added).
But there is also a set of icons “Flags” (thumbnails of state flags of all countries), “Moji” (short video clips) and “Hidden Skype emoticons”, which for some reason are not in the menu.
Why does Skype hide emoticons?
The popularity of this program is great, no doubt, but nevertheless a great many other services for communication (including video) and social networks "live" on the Web, where you can also share a file or photo, convey your thought or mood with an emoticon.
But no matter how inventive these communication resources, no matter how huge the variety of funny faces and funny figurines of emoticons, to be original in messages (that is, not to be repeated) is quite difficult, because they are accessible to everyone.
And in the competition for customers, the “great messenger of all time” invented hidden Skype emoticons, which can not only pleasantly surprise their friends, but also cause them to “respect and respect” (“this is where he / she dug up such / la, well, and head off! ").
Any icon from the vast Skype collection can be added to the mood indicator (the text box at the top under the avatar), which can be accessed by clicking on your username next to the "Change network status" list icon at the top under the menu, or selecting in the "Skype> Personal Data> Edit My Details. "
By clicking on the line "Enter a message", you will open a text field where the emoticon or other icon code is inserted if the words are useless. The mood is “fixed” by clicking on the checkmark to the right, but what does the cross does not need to be explained.
Can you tell me how to get to Skype’s secret emoticons?
Where are the hidden Skype emoticons hiding? All Skype secret emoticons, like all other secrets, can be easily found if you are not too lazy to apply for help (the "Help" item in the main menu in the "Skype" window at the top) to the cordial "Support Service" and simply type "hidden" in the search bar smiles. "
You will be "taken" to a page where you will have to click on the magic words "I am interested in the complete list of emoticons", and it will open before you ....
Full list of Skype emoticons
Here we will find the full collection of emoticons and various icons discussed above, including the mysterious "hidden Skype emoticons", which the messenger advises not to advertise ("shh, don't tell anyone").
See how they look. The photo below is a complete list of ready-to-use hidden emoticons.
Skype for business
As a rule, business Internet users who choose not a regular instant messenger "for everyone", but a paid version of Skype for business, mastering one program or another, prefer translations that are sometimes inaccurate, native (English) versions of descriptions.
However, although they are business people, these users are not squeamish about emoticons either and are also interested in secret icons, entering magic words into the search line of the Skype support service, but already in English: "Hidden emoticons (hidden emoticons) Skype for business (" Skype " for business)".
But it turns out that hidden emoticons are common for both versions of the program, that is, Skype for business understands the secret codes of emoticons of the "popular" version.
Black Cat Skype
All “Skypeists” are familiar with the pencil, which is displayed in our message field when the interlocutor scribbles an answer or message. But if the opponent is distracted, and at that moment a cat walks on the keyboard or seals an “advanced” child, instead of a pencil you will see a cat!
How and why, according to many users, the cat fell into hidden smiles on Skype, now no one can answer. The fact is that it is not in the set of "secret" emoticons, but a completely legal black cat with a white collar codenamed (cat): 3 "lives" in the group "People and objects".
This is how prudent Skype “deeply conspired” an emoticon that can be created by randomly pressing and holding several buttons on the keyboard simultaneously (or alternately while holding the previous ones), and the farther the buttons are from each other, the greater the likelihood of a cat appearing.
The cat will raise its foot, wave its tail and quickly disappear, so that "send" it (that is, abracadabra from letters), will not succeed.
True, not everyone has this effect, so do not be discouraged. Perhaps this depends on the version of Skype.
Speaking of versions. Maybe it will be useful for someone to find out that "Check for updates" by clicking on the "Help" item in the Skype menu at the top of the window.
Almost every new version of the program brings new faces and other pictures to sets, nevertheless there are some emoticons that Skype developers are unlikely to ever make visible on the palette, since they sin with foul language, bad habits, some seasonal concepts or simply duplicate visible emoticons.
Hidden Skype emoticons: flags
Flags of different states encoded by keyboard shortcuts constitute a separate group in the Skype emoticon gallery, but, in fact, they are also "classified", because they are not in the program menu.
Using flag icons, you can “hint” to people in which country you live or where you intend to go.