Now you can react with emoji in Google Docs

Keep in mind when your colleagues shared a Google Docs doc and also you needed to depart convoluted passive-aggressive feedback to indicate them that it sucks wants a bit extra work? These days are over: Now you can do it with a single emoji.

We jest, after all. Nevertheless it’s true, Google Docs now enables you to touch upon any a part of a doc with an emoji.

“The brand new emoji reactions characteristic offers a much less formal various to feedback to precise your opinions about doc content material,” mentioned Google in an official weblog put up.

In apply, while you spotlight part of a doc in enhancing mode, you may get an emoji icon on the fitting; click on on it, after which you possibly can select which emoji you wish to use. The emoji will present up on the fitting, within the feedback part. A phrase of warning: Folks don’t react effectively while you use the :poop: emoji on their content material. Do not ask me how I do know.

The emoji set on supply is up to date to the newest model (Emoji 14.0), with gender-neutral choices for gender-modifiable emojis. Emoji pores and skin tone and gender preferences can be saved per particular person emoji, the put up says.

The characteristic will roll out steadily to customers, and can be out there to customers of Google Workspace Necessities, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Normal, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Normal, and Enterprise Plus packages. The characteristic can be on by default and customers won’t be able to disable it.