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>>>Anybody know why my emoticons didn't show up in my message? But, when I hit
>>this reply, they appeared! Do I have to switch to the little happy face
>>style?
>>
>>
>>the < and > characters are recognized by the browser as the start and
>>end markers for HTML commands
>>you can use an ampersand folowed by lt; or gt; to display these chars (as I
>>did)
>>
>>Arnon
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>Keith, (via Arnon)
>The problem with the ampersand + lt and ampersand + gt method is that they only last for one iteration. The when someone copies the message, the ampersand codes do not show. For simple emoticons, I prefer to just add a space between the Greater-than and Less-than symbols < VBG >
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>Now if I've done this right, ALL of ours should show up, since I changed yours too, Keith

Great! Guess one does learn something new everyday.< s > Thanks Barbara and Arnon!