Here's something to liven up your messages  

 

As you read through this, place your cursor on the emoticon and left click  and voila! you should see a pop-up message.

 

It seems that you can't see the pop-up as you are writing the message  .  It only shows up after you actually send the message.

 

Haven't figured how, if possible, to do this in a regular email yet  

 

For those who like to tinker, I'll send the method separately so that you can play with it and then refer to the other message if you can't get it.

 

So have a  and play with this.

 

Take care,

John