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How to Use Bonus Smileys in your Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger currently offers 54 Yahoo Smileys in the default download.  However, there are also many hidden Yahoo Emoticons that are not presented in you default Yahoo! Messenger Emoticon Menu.  Here are two samples instructions on how to express yourself with these hidden emoticons on Yahoo! Messenger. 

If you type :-* , your friend will see
If you type :@). Your friend will see

The SmileyCentral add-on for your Yahoo messenger has three main features:

• You can download thousands of Bonus animated emoticons to your Yahoo! Messenger for Free

• It lets you add a cool Webfetti graphic to your message; or

• It gives you an option to select one of many electronic greeting cards to send to your friends.

How to send a custom emoticon smiley:

Make sure that Yahoo Messenger is closed. To enable Smiley Central in Yahoo Messenger, click on the MyWebSearch button in your browser.

To enable/disable Smiley Central within Yahoo Messenger, go to Internet Explorer browser and:
1) Find the "My Web Search" button on your toolbar and click the down-arrow
2) Select "Enable/Disable Features"
3) Check the box next to "Yahoo Messenger" to enable, uncheck the box to disable
4) Click "Save Changes"

Be sure to close your Yahoo Messenger, then re-open for your changes to take effect.

Once restarted, open Yahoo Messenger. Click on the contact you want to send an instant message to. This will open a conversation window. In the top right corner of the IM window you will see a SmileyCentral toolbar. To insert a smiley into a message, you need to open SmileyCentral Add-on by clicking the smiley face on the tool bar.

After clicking on a smiley icon within your Smiley application, you will see something like this in your compose box:

@[smiley: Hi Ya : [15/15_1_70]].

This is code that tells your IM client to display your smiley as an icon once you click Send. Go ahead and try it. Send your message and the code will convert to the smiley icon that you and your friend will be able to see..