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Some of the basic emoticon like :) and :D works inside google talk and on typing will turn bold blue like: :) and :D. Some other notably useful emoticons are

:( , :P , :O , :| , :'( , :x , :-) , :-D , :-( , :-P , :-O , :-| , :-x .

However, if you use chat feature inside Gmail, there are few animated emoticons which aren't documented and hidden for normal users.

One thing to keep in mind is that all emoticons are available for Gmail chat client but Google talk does not supports all of them. Google has beautifully added 'animated smileys' or 'emoticons' to the Gmail-integrated version of Google Talk. These emoticons begin by showing you what you typed, then rotate or morph into a more traditional smiley (Refresh this page to see what I mean). Most of them are black on white (like the text in chat), with a few splashes of color. If you hover mouse arrow over them, they again re-animate to create lovely effect.

To use emoticons, you need to click the blue smiley-face button at the right of the text-entry field. A pop-up menu appears, where you can choose from different emoticon sets, including circular, rectangular, or standard. However beside these, there are few others which are undocumented and considered as hidden emoticons just like secret text formatting feature in Google talk.

Below is the list of all secret emoticons. Type the appropriate combination of keys in chat box and press enter to display them .

Emoticon	Type this	to get this!
	<3	heart
	:(|)	monkey
	\m/	rock out!
	:-o	shocked
	:D	grin
	:(	frown
	X-(	angry
	B-)	cool
	:'(	crying
	=D	big grin
	;)	wink
	:-|	straight face
	=)	big smile
	:-D	nose grin
	;^)	big nose wink
	;-)	nose wink
	:-)	nose smile
	:-/	skeptical
	:P	sticking tongue out

F9 - Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.
F11 - It initiates a call with your selected contact.
F12 - It cancels a call.
Esc - It closes the current window.
Alt + F4 - It closes the current window. (same effect with Ctrl+F4)
Alt + Esc - It Minimize Gtalk windows one by one.
Windows + ESC - Open Google Talk (if it's minimized, or in the tray)

Tab - Switches to next opened gtalk window. (same effect with Ctrl+tab and Shift+tab)
Shift + Tab - The same thing does that Tab but in reverse.

(The below 4 shortcuts works only for text field in Google talk main window to search contacts. I wonder who uses them? )

Ctrl + Shift + L - Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbers
Ctrl + E - It centralizes the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + R - It justifies to the right the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + L - It justifies to the left the selected text, or the current line.

Some other Gtalk information :

1. You don’t have to say YES or NO when someone adds you. Simply ignore it and the request will go away.
2. A message can be 32767 characters long.
3. You can change your Gtalk chat name in Account Page.
(However there are some problems if you have intregated Gtalk with oukut. (Clich here to see)
4. Adding a web URL in custom message will result it to be clickable link.
5. Gtalk supports these following emotions and they transform in blue color.

:-| :-O :-x :-P :-D ;-) :-( :| :O :x :P :D :) :( ;-| ;-O ;-x ;-P ;-D ;-) ;-( ;| ;O ;x ;P ;D ;) ;( B-| B-O B-x B-P B-D B-) B-( B’( BO Bx BD B) B( B)

For any Gtalk fans want to run multiple instance Gtalk messenger account at the same times. Here is a simple trick you can run multiple instance of GTalk Account by adding or enter some command the GTalk Messenger software and run it.

1. Right Click on your Gtalk shortcut.[Remember only this shortcut will run multiple instances,others wont be able to unless you edit their properties same as we are going to do now]
2. Now go to properties
3. In the target box,you will find something like this “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe”
4. Now add -nomutex at the end of text in Target with a space.It will now become like “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” -nomutex.im showing the same in the figure also
5. Click Ok and you are done

Now double click on the shortcut and you will see one more instance of Gtalk running on your PC. You can do the same even for other gtalk shortcuts in your pc