Inserting emoji in PowerPoint

On Windows, the Win + . shortcut opens the emoji panel inside any text box in PowerPoint; on Mac, Control + Command + Space Bar does the same, letting you insert an emoji directly into a slide's title or body text.

Inserting emoji in Google Slides

Google Slides doesn't have a dedicated built-in emoji menu the way Sheets does, so the fastest route is copying an emoji from an online emoji keyboard or your operating system's picker and pasting it into a text box.

Where emoji help a slide

A single relevant emoji next to a section header or bullet point can act as a quick visual anchor, helping an audience scan a slide faster — useful in a bullet list summarizing several distinct points.

Where they distract

In data-heavy slides or formal client presentations, emoji can undercut a serious tone or clutter a chart-heavy layout — reserving them for internal or informal decks is usually the safer default.