Thinking Face 🤔 emoji in Word and Office

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Insert the Thinking Face 🤔 emoji into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac.

Thinking Face 🤔 emoji has several other names; Thinker, Throwing Shade, Chin Thumb, puzzled and skeptic.

How Thinking Face 🤔 looks in different fonts.

Here’s some examples of how Thinking Face 🤔 looks in common Office fonts.

Thinking Face 🤔 codes

These are the important code numbers or values you’ll need to enter the Thinking Face or 🤔

Decimal: 129300 Hex: 1f914

Web: 🤔 or 🤔

(web codes aren’t used in Microsoft Office, we’ve included them for the sake of completeness.)

Word and Outlook

The Thinking Face 🤔 sign does NOT have an inbuilt shortcut in Word.

Use the standard Word Alt + X symbol shortcut 1f914 + Alt + X

Once in a document you can copy it to AutoCorrect and make your own shortcut.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Insert | Symbols | Symbol should work but doesn’t because, at present, Office for Windows doesn’t support the high-numbered Unicode symbols like emoji. Word’s Find can’t find all Unicode symbols and emoji

Windows

In Windows there are several shortcuts to enter the Thinking Face 🤔 character into any program, but they use a numeric keypad, not the number row above the letters.

Alt + 129300