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Emojis & special characters

How to use Emojis and special characters to make your events more engaging

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Written by Anni
Updated over 2 weeks ago

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Using Emojis

If you're using a phone or tablet, you can insert emojis anywhere that uses text, just like when sending a message to friends.

How to bring up an emoji keyboard on your laptop/computer

Mac keyboard

Select CTRL + CMD + Space.

Windows keyboard

Either hold Windows + ; (semi-colon) or Windows + . (full stop)

Emojis are a great way to differentiate classes or items on your schedule, especially if you offer the voucher workaround, items or pre-recorded video content.

You can use them anywhere you type text, such as:

  • Event name

  • Event description

  • Booking confirmation message

  • Ticket name

  • Ticket description

  • Page title

  • Page description

Adding emojis to an entry

To add an emoji to your entry:

  1. Open your Scheduling page.

  2. Select your entry from your schedule list, then Edit entry:

    Scheduling setup with an arrow pointing to the 'Edit Entry' button.

  3. Add the emoji where necessary, for example, in the entry Name:

    Entry settings showing an emoji being added into the 'Name' field

  4. Once added, select Save or Save & Exit to save your entry.

The emojis will then appear on the public page, depending on where you added them. For example:

Public page with arrows pointing at an emoji in an event name

πŸ’‘ https://emojipedia.org/ is a great place to explore all the available Emojis and how they look in different tools and devices.

Using special characters

Special characters are a great way of adding subtle detail to your entries. For example:

Entry title showing a moon special character

πŸ’‘ Please note: For entry titles made entirely of special characters, you won't be able to filter your search by typing the name. Instead, you'll need to manually scroll to find the entry.

Special character examples

A few examples of what special characters are available:

  • Weather, stars, flowers etc.: β˜† ✿ ❀︎ ☾ ☁︎ β˜€οΈŽ

  • Trademark and copyright: β„’ Β©

  • Arrows: β«Έ ⦚ ✎ ➳ βžͺ ☞

  • Fonts: 𝔸𝕒 𝔹𝕓 ℂ𝕔 π’œπ’Ά ℬ𝒷 π’žπ’Έ π”„π”ž π”…π”Ÿ ℭ𝔠

Special character keyboard

You can also bring up your special characters keyboard on your computer.

How to bring up a special character keyboard on your laptop/computer

Mac Keyboard

Press CTRL + CMD + Space simultaneously and select the ⌘ icon in the top right to switch between Emojis and Character Viewer.

Windows Keyboard

Select Start, enter character map into the search box and hit Enter. You can then copy and paste special characters from the results box or select to paste the character into your text box:

Character map on windows

Using Emojis and special characters with filter buttons

You can also use emojis and special characters on filter buttons. To do this, you'll need to add the emoji or special character to the text section of your button code.

For example:

  1. In the filter button text field, you can add an emoji/special character. ie.: >Grow Classes 🌱</a>

  2. Once saved, your filter button will display as Grow Classes 🌱.

Full code example:

<div class="view_button">

<a class="small button success" href="https://bookwhen.com/grow?tags=grow"style="margin-bottom:10px;">Grow Classes 🌱</a>

</div>

Filter buttons using emojis example

Public page example with yellow, blue and purple hearts in the filter buttons

Filter buttons using special characters example

Public page example with special characters in the filter buttons

πŸ’¬ Any questions or feedback? There are two ways to get in touch:

Thank you! πŸ•Ί

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