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by Mark Picard on Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:48 am

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I aked this question quite awhile back with no reply - maybe I can get an answer this time around. Every time I try to use an emoticon I get text instead when it's finally posted to NSN. They always appear correctly in my preview, but when I finally submit, it changes to text. Help!

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by Greg Forcey on Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:06 pm

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Do you have them enabled in your profile under board preferences? See below.

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by Mark Picard on Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:09 am

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Greg Forcey wrote:Do you have them enabled in your profile under board preferences? See below.

Yes, they are enabled - and just to be on the safe side I re-submitted them. Did they work?

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by Mark Picard on Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:14 am

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I see that we might have success! I'll try another

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by Mark Picard on Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:20 am

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Thanks Greg - although that was suggested to me in the past (which I tried a couple of times), for some reason the resubmission this time seemed to stick. Something different these last two times is that I'm getting a gray text box around my text. Is that normal and is that why the emoticons now work?

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by Gary Briney on Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:13 am

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Mark, In my experience the emoticons have been a hit-and-miss proposition since we moved to the new site. Sometimes they look OK in the editor, not in the preview, and are OK in the final message -- or some other combinaton. Initially the oops emoticon was a little elusive, requiring a non-intuitive sequence of keystokes. oops: then adding the initial colon to get

Which browser & version are you using btw?

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by Mark Picard on Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:49 am

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Normally it's Google Chrome, and I seem to remember it acting the same in IE8.

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by Gary Briney on Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:30 am

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Mark Picard wrote:Normally it's Google Chrome, and I seem to remember it acting the same in IE8.

Mark,
Summarizing what I saw in checking browsers earlier today:
- Chrome: the colon D big smiley didn't work if entered by clicking the icon in the editor panel
- IE8 and FF both worked satisfactorily
- Safari: didn't play well with Preview

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