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Kaushal-Mehta
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Apr 23, 2021

Preview exited, now GA: Expanded Emoji Picker

Description The expanded emoji update brings users the fun and expressiveness they love from other platforms into Teams. It also introduces a far wider range of diversity and representation in our ...
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Jason_Schumacher
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May 11, 2021
Thank you for the feedback! The parentheses pattern was selected to improve discoverability and to avoid conflicts with common emoticons like 🙂 and :P. However, our team is taking alternative shortcode patterns into consideration.
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2Awesome
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Jun 03, 2021

Jason_Schumacher I'd like to suggest the pattern of a double parentheses "((" as the trigger.  Outside of typing in code, I generally don't see them doubled up, however it still easy to type.

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    Jason_Schumacher
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    Jun 10, 2021
    The team is considering options regarding shortcode functionality for the future. Thank you for this suggestion.

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