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Telephone receiver 📞 emoji in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Insert the Telephone receiver symbol 📞  into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook.  Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac.

Telephone receiver or handset 📞 symbol can be used on a letterhead or sign where a phone number is shown. There’s an emoji in the Unicode standard plus two Microsoft Office Icons.

How Telephone receiver 📞 looks in different fonts.

In Windows, the Telephone receiver symbol is only available in Segoe UI Emoji font.

Office Icons

Modern Microsoft Office (2019 and later) have Icons (aka SVG) that are similar and perhaps better than the emoji telephone handset.  Go to Insert | Illustrations | Icons and search for “phone” to see two different phone handset icons in black or outline versions.

Phone handset icons as supplied by Office (top row) and some color and effect variations from the Graphics Format tab (bottom row)

Icons available vary depending on the version of Office, the above are from Microsoft 365.

Telephone receiver 📞 codes

These are the important code numbers or values you’ll need to enter the Telephone receiver 📞 emoji.

Decimal:  128222  Hex:   1f4de

Web: 📞 or 📞

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

Word and Outlook

The Telephone receiver 📞  sign does NOT have an inbuilt shortcut in Word.

Use the standard Word Alt + X symbol shortcut 1f4de then Alt + X

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

Windows

In Windows there’s a shortcut to enter the Telephone receiver 📞  character into any program, but they use a numeric keypad, not the number row above the letters.

Alt + 128222  

Window 11/10 Emoji Panel

The Windows 11/0 Emoji Panel has the Telephone receiver 📞  character. Use Win + . (period/fullstop) to open the panel, search for ‘telephone’ or just ‘tele’ is enough.

See Emoji Panel is part of Windows 11/10 that totally sucks

MacOS and Office for Mac inserting characters

On a Mac, to enter the Telephone receiver 📞 symbol:

  • Command + Control + Spacebar shortcut to open the Character Viewer.  
  • Search for “ Telephone  “ or just “Phone” and the Viewer should find the symbol you need.

Despite the name Character Viewer, the Apple system tool will also insert characters into any program, including Office for Mac.

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