In Excel, it’s a bit more complicated because you cannot assign a keyboard shortcut the way you can in Word. As you saw above, each symbol has a Microsoft-assigned shortcut code, but short of ...

To use this method, place your cursor in the desired cell and press the Alt key followed by the emoji code keyboard shortcut (1, 2, 3, and so on). For example, to insert a smiley face, press Alt+1.